JasperAssistant (
http://www.jasperassistant.com) is a visual report designer for JasperReports, a popular open-source reporting engine. It is built on top of the Eclipse's plug-in architecture and its main goal is to help you create JasperReports report definition files through an intuitive graphical interface.
What's new:
* Remove horizontal and vertical space actions.
* Vertical align actions for text objects.
* New palette section that allows to quickly create text fields for displaying current date, time, current page, total pages and more.
* New text field formatting dialog that allows to specify the format pattern using an interface similar to the one available in Excel.
* Improved the registration process and made it more friendlier towards the plug-in upgrades.
* Several other minor bugfixes and enhancements.
Main benefits of JasperAssistant:
* Design and layout your reports using an intuitive visual interface and avoid the need for XML editing of JasperReports templates.
* Use the only designer that fully supports all the features of JasperReports up to the latest version.
* Take advantage of Eclipse IDE integration and effectively combine Java and JasperReports development.
* Efficiently locate and correct report problems using precise error indications.
* Preview your reports instantly using live data from a JDBC database connection, an XML document, JavaBeans array or a custom data source.
* Export and preview your reports in PDF, Excel, HTML, CSV and XML formats.
For more information please visit
http://www.jasperassistant.com