How to use jasper reports in my project? What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of jasper reports?

How do I implement and use jasper reports in my JSP/Servlet project? What is the advantage/disadvantages of using jasper reports开发者_运维知识库?

See their Homepage for tutorials on how to implement JasperReports.

If you want to know advantages vs. disadvantages you need something to compare it to. I believe you know the comparison results vs. creating report manually (without a report engine), so I assume you want a comparison with the other big player, namely Crystal Reports.

CrystalReports:

• Widely used, large community
• Some bugs in Java report editor and they missed to make some properties editable which can be edited by the native report editor.
• If stuck, you don't have the source to fix it. You WILL get stuck.
• Programmers hate it, Managers love it.
• Stupidest image handling capabilities imaginable for a product with this reach. Scale an image proportionally? Sorry, no go.

JasperReports:

• Widely used, also large community
• Programmers love it, managers don't like it.

I would DEFENITELY GO WITH JASPER if I had to decide this again. And i WILL implement Jasper as a secondare report engine in our app, when I get the time to do this, because CR sucks big time.

Here is an excellent feature comparison of JasperReports, BIRT and Pentaho