JasperAssistant report designer 1.4.1 released. Articles / Plugins Posted by jasperassistant on Nov 15, 2004 - 01:48 PM JasperAssistant 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 assist you in creating JasperReports report definition files through an intuitive graphical interface. What's new: Report export and preview wizard. Supports PDF, Excel, HTML, CSV and XML formats. (Screenshot [1]). (Eclipse 3) Setup guide for JasperReports samples (Guide [2]). New report page settings dialog. Includes column resize tool. New zoom buttons in preview viewer toolbar: Actual Size, Fit Page Width and Fit Page Size. (Screenshot [3]) (Eclipse 3) Improved database data source configuration dialog to allow up to three JAR files for JDBC driver. Other minor improvements and bugfixes: Added thread context class loader suport for custom data sources. Added support for loading external XML entities. See Query JasperReports sample. Improved the loading of reports with consistency problems. Reports that are rejected by JasperReports can be still opened and corrected in JasperAssistant. Added correct handling for Eclipse project cycles. Why JasperAssistant ? JasperAssistant opens for you the door to the best open-source reporting engine available - JasperReports. JasperReports offers you a free reporting library for your commercial and non-commercial Java projects with no deployment or any other fees. JasperAssistant in its turn gives you a professional designer that is able to save you a great amount of development time. Combine the two, and you get an accessible reporting solution which easily matches many high-priced commercial counterparts. Download the evaluation version from: http://www.jasperassistant.com/download.html [4] Screenshots: http://www.jasperassistant.com/screenshots.html [5] For more information please visit http://www.jasperassistant.com [6] This article is from Eclipse Plugin Central   http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=301 Links in this article   [1] http://www.jasperassistant.com/shots/export.png   [2] http://www.jasperassistant.com/docs/guide/apa.html   [3] http://www.jasperassistant.com/shots/preview.png   [4] http://www.jasperassistant.com/download.html   [5] http://www.jasperassistant.com/screenshots.html   [6] http://www.jasperassistant.com