easy migration to new JasperReports version

[2006 IR Open Discussion]

By: Ilievski Bozidar - bobi1978

easy migration to new JasperReports version

2003-12-12 01:42

Hi.

I have about 100 reports that are compiled with jasperreport0.3.1 version.

Is there an easy way to recompile all this reports with the new JasperReports0.5.0 classes?

And what about 0.5.1 version that will come soon or later, shall I do 100 recompilation again?

 

Thanks.

Bobi.

 

 

 

 

By: Teodor Danciu - teodord

RE: easy migration to new JasperReports versi

2003-12-12 01:53

 

Hi,

 

There is an Ant task available for compiling multiple

XML report design files.

Check the "antcompile" sample provided with the

0.5.0 version.

 

Thank you,

Teodor

 

 

 

 

 

By: Navaneetha Krishnan J - navaneethanj

RE: easy migration to new JasperReports version

2003-12-12 01:54

Dear Teodor,

 

I too have same two questions. Small difference is i am using jasper reports 0.4.5.

 

Please give some tips to do it.

 

Thanks,

Navaneethan.

 

 

 

 

By: Ilievski Bozidar - bobi1978

RE: RE:

2003-12-12 05:44

Teodor thanks for your help.

 

To Navaneetha Krishnan J :

 

You should download Ant Tool from:

http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.6beta3/bin/

 

Unpack it to some folder (ex: C:ant).

Then set environment variable: ANT_HOME = C:ant

After that add "C:antbin" to your PATH variable.

 

Now you can use the ant tool.

 

There are build.xml files with all the examples that come with JasperReports0.5.0.

This build.xml file is used by ant tool, so when you write:

ant compile

the tool looks in build.xml file for a tag with name="compile" and compiles your xml design to produce .jasper file.

 

And so on...