What's New in JReport 9.1

This document describes the new features of JReport in this release.

JReport Cloud

JReport Cloud can be easily deployed in a Cloud with the support of Amazon EC2, KVM or VMware. JReport Cloud provides the full power of JReport Server including report bursting, page-level security, dashboards, dynamic reporting and analysis and many other features for enhanced usability, and enterprise deployment.

High reliability/availability: Automatically run reports via a schedule or on-demand with the full reliability and availability of Amazon EC2. In the rare case of an server failing, EC2 restarts it immediately.
High scalability: Increase cluster size dynamically while running, configure new servers and auto-join them to the cluster.
Agility: Take advantage of flexible server resources from Amazon and easy to add or remove servers within minutes by monitoring the cluster load. No equipment to purchase, install, and maintain.
Cost effective: Optimize resource utilization and only pay for the resources that you use.
Local data accessibility: Customers' own data sources can be accessed remotely from JReport Cloud via Cloud Elastic IP service.

JReport for Eclipse (JR4E)

JR4E is a free JReport add-on that provides Eclipse users a convenient platform for developing both applications and reports at the same time. Users can easily design reports via an Eclipse-style interactive user interface.

Supported data source types: table, view, query, imported SQL, and stored procedure.
Supported component types: banded object, table, crosstab, chart, tabular, label, image, DBField, formula, parameter, summary, drawing object, and special field.
Exporting multiple format results: PDF, HTML, Excel, Text, RTF, XML, and PostScript.
Link Report: Supports linking report fields, labels, and images to other reports, web pages or email addresses.
CSS support: Styles are supported two ways: apply the style directly in toolbar styling options or use the report/component wizard.
Parameter support: A dialog for entering parameter values is provided for specifying run time values.
Running reports on JReport Enterprise Server: Within the JR4E environment, you can publish reports to a local standalone or integrated JReport Enterprise Server, start and stop the server and run reports on the server.
Report result preview: View using HTML, PDF, Excel, Text, RTF, XML, and PostScript. You can also preview report results in the HTML format by using the Preview tab in the report editor.
Data browser and query preview: You can view table and view field values and preview data in queries.
Viewing report source code: You can view the XML report source code using the Source tab in the report editor.
Report wizard: When creating new reports provides a customizable tabular layout, in the wizard multiple components can be easily organized at one time with complex layouts. The report wizard also provides an entry to create formulas and links.
Shortcut wizards: Wizards for banded objects, tables, crosstabs, and charts provide an intuitive user interface to create or modify field, group, summary and style for components.
Action and formatting toolbar: Provides the functionality for undo/redo, export, alignment, text and CSS formatting etc. for the JReport perspective.
Resource editor: Serves as a resource warehouse containing query, formula, parameter, summary, and supports intuitive double-click and drag and drop editing operations.
Properties view: Lists the properties and values to format reports and components.
Palette view: Displays the components that can be inserted into reports.
Outline view: Displays the structure and components in the current report. It provides for easy selection of any object in the report.
Dataset manager: Offers an intuitive user interface to define the scope of retrieved data and apply filters to datasets.
Preference panel: Used to configure default settings for catalog, component, dataset, editor, and others.