JasperAssistant is a visual report designer for JasperReports, a popular open-source reporting engine.

JasperAssistant is built on top of the Eclipses plug-in architecture and its main goal is to help you create JasperReports report definition files through an intuitive graphical interface. JasperAssistant is a software that allows you to design reports.

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.

Features of "JasperAssisstant":

· "What you see is what you get" visual report designer.
· Complete integration with Eclipse IDE environment.
· An integrated report compiler.
· Report preview support
· Report Export wizard
· Support for compiled report files (*.jasper)
· Drag-and-drop interface.
· Unlimited Undo/Redo support.
· Cut/Copy/Paste support.
· Properties View.
· Outline View.
· Problems/Tasks View.
· Intuitive Context Menus.
· A dedicated toolbar for text objects.
· Zoom support.
· A customizable palette.
· A comprehensive set of align and resize actions.
· Intuitive Expression Editor.
· Integrated user documentation.
· Field Wizard.
· Grid and Snap To Grid support.
· Rulers, Guides and Snap to Guides support.
· Extensible shortcuts support.
· Full support for JasperReports data sources.


Requirements:

· Before you can install the JasperAssistant Plug-in, please make sure that you have installed the following software:

For Eclipse 3.0.x:

· Eclipse SDK 3.0.x
· GEF Runtime 3.0.1

For Eclipse 3.1.x:

· Eclipse SDK 3.1.x
· GEF Runtime 3.1.1

For Eclipse 3.2.x:
· Eclipse SDK 3.2.x
· GEF Runtime 3.2.x


Limitations:

· 21 days trial

Changes from previous version

· Support for JasperReports 3.0.0.