Ireport

Although JasperReports is the world's most popular open source Java reporting library, it has always lacked one thing: It doesn't provide a tool to visually design reports. iReport is a visual report designer built on JasperReports that fills that lack. It is an intuitive and easy-to-use visual report builder/designer for JasperReports, written in 100% pure Java.

Step-by-step example-driven tutorials make this book very easy to follow. Practical, realistic business examples, many relevant screenshots, and simple discussion of prior concepts help readers to understand from the simplest to the most complex concepts.

Over 50 recipes to create next-generation reports using JasperReports
Overview of JasperReports 3.6.0 Development Cookbook
Create, size, and position the titles, headers, footers, and body of your report using JasperReports and iReport
Enhance the look and feel of your report using background images, watermarks, and other such features