JasperAssistant (http://www.jasperassistant.com [1]) 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:

This version brings full support for crosstabs by providing a dedicated crosstab editor. The most notable features of crosstab editor are:

• Visual layout and editing of crosstab cells
• Crosstab structure editing in Outline View
• Snap to grid support in crosstab cells
• Crosstab compilation errors linked to crosstab editor

Main benefits of JasperAssistant:

• Design and layout your reports using an intuitive visual interface and avoid the need for XML editing of JasperReports templates.
• 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 [2]