Can JavaBean datasources be passed remotely?

[martinmurth]

 Hi!

We are currently thinking of using JasperServer 3.7 in an enterprise-level project for managing an generating production and BI reports. We installed a standalone JasperServer instance and create reports by invoking the WS API. 

So far, we managed to define our reports with SQL statements. However, the complexity of the most recent reports requirements is not reasonably implementable with SQL anymore. This brought us to the idea of generating the data in the application and passing it to the reporting engine as an JavaBean datasource. While this will work for embedded report engines, however, the remote WS API seems to not support passing JB datasources to the server. 

So, my question: Is there a way to pass Java objects to a the report server remotely? And, if not, what would be the recommended way to generate complex reports?

 

thanks in advance,

many regards

mtl