For last few days, i have been evaluating the jaspersoft enterprise bi soulution ver 3.5 , and found it awesome. first i thought about using the jaspersoft report and analysis components to build the BI solution. after evaluation we found, jaspersoft is providing the major portion of the functionality to meet our business requirement. so, why can't we use the jaspersoft community edition as the core and extend it to add the minor portion?. I started with downloading the community edition source code... and able to build the jaspersoft ce with the doucment provided(thanks to jaspersoft team for providing such beautiful documentation and the buildomatic scripts, with out which it would not have been possible) i have the jaspersoft community edition running and i could able to use my own data source and do the analysis... reporting and dashboards in community edition are not yet tried, but our major interest is jasperAnalysis and is beautiful. My concern is how to extend the jaspersoft community edition? setting it up in eclipse and do further developement to meet our business requirement. I read some where in the document that buildomatic scripts are not meant for any IDE. and also i observed, buildomatic scripts are accessing remote svn repository for maven build configuration files and some resource(dont know what exactly) is there any way i could use the jaspersoft as the core to start with and add functionality (importing project in eclipse and editing) to make the solution as per our requirements? please be noted that , my interest is to use the jaspersoft as the core solution and add the functionality on the top of it, but not to use the jaspersoft APIs/webservices in the existing application. thanks in advance asif Post Edited by asif_m10 at 10/07/2009 11:17