- Jasper Reports
- 100% written in Java.
- It compiles .jrxml (XML source) to .jasper (compiled) files, which in turn can be transformed into several output types including PDF, HTML, CSV, and XLS.
- You can configure various data source: JDBC, EJB, POJO, Hibernate, XML.
Download Struts 2 Jasper Report Plugins
We need the following libraries: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports
- jasperreports-version.jar
- commons-*.jar
- itext-version.jar
- jdt-compiler.jar
Copy these libraries to your WEB-INF/lib directory
Code
Create Product JavaBean called Product.java
Create Action (MyJasperAction) which compiles and stream the datasource to jrxml which compiles and generate report.
public class MyJasperAction extends ActionSupport {
/** create List to use as our JasperReports dataSource. */private ListmyList;
public String execute() throws Exception {
Product p1 = new Product(new Long(1), "Sony Camera", "149.99");
Product p2 = new Product(new Long(2), "Fuji Camera", "99.99");
// Store product in our dataSource list (normally would come from database).
myList = new ArrayList();
myList.add(p1);
myList.add(p2);
// Normally we would provide a pre-compiled .jrxml file
// or check to make sure we don't compile on every request.
try {
JasperCompileManager.compileReportToFile(
"myapp/reports/jasper_template.jrxml",
"myapp/reports/compiled_template.jasper");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return ERROR;
}
return SUCCESS;
}
public ListgetMyList() {
return myList;
}
}Struts.xml
