How to manually copy/move a list of Servers and Data Adapters from one TIBCO Jaspersoft® Studio to another

Use case

When moving TIBCO Jaspersoft^® Studio from one machine to another, or when simply attempting to replicate a setup on a different machine, it might be helpful to have a quick way to copy/move your existing configuration of TIBCO JasperReports^® Server connections and/or the Data Adapters

Solution

The TIBCO JasperReports Server connection definitions are stored in the workspace, particularily in

\.metadata\.plugins\com.jaspersoft.studio\serverprofiles

Just copy the contents of this folder to the new instanace of TIBCO Jaspersoft Studio and restart it.

Similarly, the data adapter definitions are stored in .metadata.pluginscom.jaspersoft.studiodataAdapters folder and can be migrated too