iReport is the most popular visual designer tool for JasperReports Library and JasperReports Server (Business Intelligence). Supports all the most important output formats and virtually any data source.
the install comes with netbeans and old verions of that, its not running as its don't use 1.8 java sdk. it's interferring with netbeasn 8.1.
Still a great reports generator!
Provides a lightweight visual designer (that doesn't require loading Eclipse OS). Perfect for those who prefer a collection of lightweight tools to the emacs/eclipse approach. It does not run in Java 8. I will probably invest a little time to see if there is a simple fix. Update: there is a simple fix/workaround. The issue is tightened security in proxy classes. This patch downgrades the critical proxy class to pre Java8 security so that ireport can run in java8. Check jaspersoft site, sf won't let me paste the patch here.
Despite the XML code generated doesn't give the same result sometimes when we put on Oracle database, iReport is an excellent option. rouchi, maybe you should set up your "ireport.conf" to something like that "jdkhome="C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.6.0_12""
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