Jasper Reports 3.0 with Advanced Excel Formula Handling
Version 3.0.0 of Jasper Reports, a free Java report generating library with advanced export functionality has just been released.
New properties, which can be defined for each element in the generated report, add more flexibility. Element properties can also be specified as expressions that are evaluated on generating the documents.
The major innovations relate to exporting to Microsoft's Excel format, XLS: developers can specify cell formulas in the "net.sf.jasperreports.export.xls.formula" property; the formulas can either be evaluated or inserted into the Excel document as is. The program now has more elegant page break handling thanks to the new "net.sf.jasperreports.export.xls.break.before.row" and "net.sf.jasperreports.export.xls.break.after.row" properties.
On top of this, there is an experimental export feature to Microsoft's Excel XMLSS format, which can output large documents as a stream. More changes are listed in the Changelog.
Jasper Reports is licensed under the LGPL. The current 3.0.0 version is available for downloading as a source code or Jar archive on the project website.
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