JasperReports Server provides a shared service for running and distributing reports built from application data. Users can access reports through a browser or receive scheduled output, while administrators manage report definitions and access centrally. It is useful when reporting needs its own application rather than being embedded separately in every service. The Server is distinct from the JasperReports Library and Studio design tool, and their support and licensing must be assessed separately.
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The recovered content describes JasperReports Server: a report-serving and scheduling application. JasperReports Library embeds report generation in Java applications, while Jaspersoft Studio is a report-design tool. Their names and shared ecosystem do not establish interchangeable packaging, licensing or support lifecycles.
Jaspersoft’s community-edition FAQ, effective 25 January 2024, says it no longer supports or hosts downloads of JasperReports Server Community Edition. Server continues in Jaspersoft’s commercial edition; the community offering includes JasperReports Library and Jaspersoft Studio. Identify the actual Server edition and version from the running artifact, not just the chart name, and consult the vendor’s edition-specific lifecycle and upgrade documentation before planning a commercial migration or another replacement.
Inventory report definitions, data adapters, JDBC drivers, scheduled jobs, repository content and authentication integration. Test a representative report set after export and import, including fonts, locale, subreports and database permissions; a page that loads successfully can still produce incorrect documents. Protect database credentials and report downloads, and restore the application repository together with its backing database. A new JasperReports Library release alone does not repair or upgrade a separate Server installation.
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JasperReports Server is a stand-alone and embeddable reporting server. It provides reporting and analytics that can be embedded into a web or mobile application as well as operate as a central information hub for the enterprise by delivering mission-critical information on a real-time or scheduled basis to the browser, mobile device, or email inbox in a variety of file formats. JasperReports Server is optimized to share, secure, and centrally manage your Jaspersoft reports and analytic views.
Prerequisites
Kubernetes 1.4+ with Beta APIs enabled
PV provisioner support in the underlying infrastructure
Features & Benefits
Flexible Server Architecture
- Semantic layer for relational and non-relational data sources – BI Editions only
- On-premises, virtualized, or Cloud (SaaS & PaaS) deployment options
- Open standards, REST and SOAP-based web service architecture simplifies mobile and web application integration
Centralized Repository
- Connectivity to existing identity management systems to centralize and secure reports and analysis views
- Report access and usage auditing for compliance
- Granular security access down to the cell and column level
- Additional Commercial Edition Features
Ad hoc Reporting
- Web-based, drag-and-drop report designer creates interactive reports for dashboards, email distribution, or within a web application
- Metadata layer masks complex data descriptions with simplified business user-friendly names
- Web-based reports provide rich, interactive reports with drill down, filtering, animated charting, and more
- Dashboards
- Web-based, drag-and-drop dashboard designer
- Single report and dashboard-level parameters drive user interaction
- Free-form layout designer for customized dashboard design
What is JasperReports Server?
An introduction to JasperReports Server and its key capabilities
JasperReports Server is a stand-alone and embeddable reporting server, enabling delivery of mission critical information on a real-time or scheduled basis to the web, to the printer, or to a variety of file formats. Build a report in iReport and then deploy it to JasperReports Server. The report can then be executed, exported to a desired output, or scheduled to execute at a later date.
For Developers
- Embeddable architecture leveraging HTTP-based and Java web services for custom operational applications
- Simplify and improve report generation performance and delivery to users.
- Secure, schedule, and automatically deliver interactive reports in a variety of output formats to thousands of users leveraging a calendar or corn-based trigger
- Flexible data agnostic architecture that supports reports based on relational, non-relational, and big data sources
- An extensible architecture that provides the framework for customizations for security and data source support
- Role-based access control to all objects in the repository
- Reusable sub-reports that are stored and maintained in the repository
For IT and BI Professionals
- Centrally managed reporting and analysis server
- Schedule and automatically deliver interactive reports in a variety of output formats to thousands of users leveraging a calendar or corn-based trigger
- Integrate with existing identity management systems such as LDAP and CAS for single sign-on to reports
- Role-based access control to all objects in the repository
- Cloud-ready BI platform
- Pre-integrated OLAP Analysis capabilities such as single click drill through to detail and pivoting/swapping of axis.
- Ability to make on the fly modifications to underlying data cube as part of Analysis capabilities.
- Simple upgrade to web-based self-service features via a commercial product upgrade
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