[how to call jasper reports from .NET platform?]

I was able to use jasperreports from an ASP.NET (C#) application using JNI4NET as a bridge between .NET & JAVA (works two ways), I performed a load test simulating multiple concurrent users through Apache Jmeter & the performance is very good, only the very first call takes some time for the initialization between the two environments to happen.

here is what I did:

1)using iReport designer, I built & compiled my report to .jasper file.
2)created a JAVA project in Eclipse referencing jasperreports JAR, the project reads records from a JDBC connection & fills the jasper template generating a PDF.
3)downloaded jni4net-0.8.6.0-bin from (http://jni4net.sourceforge.net/)
4)in Eclipse, export your project as a JAR file to be referenced from within JNI4NET.
5)use the generateProxies tool that comes with the package to generate a proxy for the JAVA class you directly reference from within .NET, several samples are provided within the package, for example in my project I had several classes, one for generating a chart, one for reading from a database, but only one was called directly from .NET to generate a PDF as in below:

create an XML file to be used by the generateProxy tool:

<TargetDirJvm>workjvm</TargetDirJvm>
<TargetDirClr>workclr</TargetDirClr>

<ClassPath Path="work/jbridge.jar"/> <!-- my Eclipse project exported to JAR-->
<ClassPath Path="lib/jasperreports-4.5.0.jar"/>
<!-- ....................-->

<JavaClass TypeName="reports.GeneratePDF"/> <!-- the JAVA class that will be directly invoked from within .NET, no need to generate proxies for other indirect classes-->


you can see examples on how to call this tool passing the XML file as a parameter in JNI4NET/samples package.

[ireport table design, is this possible?]

Good day,

Is it possible to design such a table (attached in the screenshot) in ireport, specially with the table column headers?