Getting Started Tutorial: iReport/NetBeans Plugin

[tombarrett]

I just posted a tutorial sharing my happy first experience with iReports.  I hope it is helpful for first-time users.

http://wikis.sun.com/download/attachments/47881337/BuildingBAMDashboards.pdf

 

BAM Dashboards for Open ESB and Java CAPS (V1.0) - 42 pages - September 29, 2008

This tutorial introduces you to building a BAM (business activity monitoring) dashboard display using the NetBeans IDE. You'll use JasperSoft's iReport plug-in module for NetBeans. iReport is an open source offering that allows you to create sophisticated reports for display in either rich clients or in browsers. In his tutorial, you'll use iReport's design facility to create and test a report specification. Then, you'll explore iReport's design/compile/fill/export life cycle as you develop a web application that reads database data generated by the Java One 2008 PennyLotto Open ESB Intelligent Event Processor (IEP) demo and constantly refreshes a pie chart summary. Here are the four projects:

• Installing the iReport NetBeans Plug-in
• Establishing a Test Database
• Building a Report with iReport
• Developing the Auto-Refreshing Dashboard

I would appreciate feedback.

Thanks.