Tuesday, 21 November 2006

JasperSoft Debuts Report Designer For Eclipse IDE

JasperSoft, a provider of open source business intelligence, has launched iReport Plug-in for Eclipse, a graphical report designer that lets developers using Eclipse quickly add reports to their applications, the company said.

JasperSoft's new Eclipse plug-in, as well as the iReport designer application and the JasperReports reporting libraries are all freely available for download and use under open source licenses. This is the first integration of Eclipse with JasperSoft's open source BI products, which have been downloaded more than 1.7 million times, the company added.

According to the company, Eclipse users can now create, edit, and run reports from the same familiar development environment they use everyday, speeding up their workflow and reducing project development times. Java developers can access the iReport graphical report editor to give their applications rich reporting capability based on JasperReports library that can create Web and pixel-perfect ready to print reports in PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV, TXT and XML. In addition to easy report creation, the new iReport Plug-in for Eclipse also gives developers access to the entire JasperIntelligence suite of open source BI applications to manage interactive reports from a server, schedule reports, and analyse data.

"JasperSoft developed the iReport Plug-in for Eclipse in response to demand from Java developers to get direct access to the world's most popular open source reporting library with the most popular open source IDE platform", said Giulio Toffoli, lead committer for the iReport project and iReport engineering lead at JasperSoft.

The new product is shipping with all copies of iReport and is immediately available for download and installation here.