Released: JasperReports Server 4.2.1 Community Edition

[mgeise]

 

Announcing JasperReports Server 4.2.1 Community Edition

JasperReports Server now includes the following:

• iPad Support
  
  • JasperReports Server's web application now supports the Apple iPad running the Safari browser. In this release, the server supports viewing content (such as browsing the repository; running and copying reports; and viewing dashboards) and creating Ad Hoc reports.
• Interactive HTML reports
  
  • Using JasperReports Server, you can now publish reports that allow users to sort or filter in the browser. Users click to modify these reports on-the-fly. Interactivity is available for all reports that use the table component.
• New HTML Output
  
  • The server includes a new XHTML exporter that is less strict with regard to overlapping HTML elements. You can specify whether the server uses the pre-existing HTML exporter or the new XHTML exporter. If you want your table component reports to be interactive, JasperReports Server must use the XHTML exporter.
• REST API
  
  • JasperReports Server now includes web services based on the REST (Representational State Transfer) style of architecture. In this release, the RESTful services allow you to access repository functionality, such as getting, putting, posting, and deleting objects in the repository. 

Database Server Support Changes:

• Default Database Change to PostgreSQL
  
  • The bundled database installed by default with JasperReports Server has changed from MySQL to PostgreSQL 9.0.4. JasperReports Server continues to support a wide range of databases, including MySQL. MySQL users can set up JasperReports Server during installation to connect to their existing MySQL database.
  • In earlier releases, Jaspersoft also provided and installed the driver for the MySQL database. The installer no longer provides this driver. MySQL 5.1 users can download the JDBC driver, mysql-connector-java-5.1.17-bin.jar, from this web site: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/
  •  An existing (unbundled) PostgreSQL instance can be located on a remote host. You need to enable remote connections in the PostgreSQL configuration. See the JasperReports Server Installation Guide for more information.
  • JasperReports Server now supports MySQL 5.5 as a data source. Note that MySQL 5.5 is not currently supported as a repository database (see Known Issues).

Application Server Support Changes:

• JasperReports Server now supports Tomcat 7.0, and recommends version 7.0.19 or later.

Other Changes:

• Updated versions of JasperReports Library and iReport Designer
  
  • JasperReports Server 4.2.1 includes JasperReports Library and iReport Designer 4.2.1, which include support for PDF/A compliant PDF export, and the ability to apply interactivity (sorting or filtering) to report components.

 

[tkivilah]

 Hello,

I installed new server and it's missing way to upload (jrxml) file to the server, actually whole Add Resource -> File -menu is missing, is this correct?

 

Edit: Forgot  version, version is: 4.2.1-linux-x64. Tested under kubuntu 11.10.

Post Edited by tkivilah at 10/25/2011 08:30

[mgeise]

To upload a JRXML file as a report (so that you can associate input controls and a datasource) you will upload them as a "JasperReport".  Are you trying to simply upload the JRXML file on it's own?  If so, this can be done through the repository plugin within iReport.

[planetzone]

Code:

But what about OLAP definitions. With the new Jasper Server I can't upload them to a specific repository folder. The same with CSS files.