JasperReports optional dependencies

Question

The JasperReports library defines a set of optional dependencies (POI, Xalan, Ant, Jackson, ...)

I could not find anything in the documentation that clearly indicates when to add which dependency (one or more JAR files).

I am searching for a document that would indicates which dependency is related to which features.

Does such a documents exists ?

Answer 1

As far as I know, the JasperReports class library already includes the required JAR files.

Here some of the dependencies:

• iText is a PDF generation and manipulation library. It also has the ability to generate and manupulate RTF, XML, and HTML documents. JasperReports takes advantage of iText for exporting reports to PDF and RTF.

• JFreeChart is a Java library for producing various charts, including pie charts, bar charts, line and area charts, and the like. JasperReports takes advantage of JFreeChart to implement its built-in charting functionality.

• Jakarta POI is a Java class library to create and manipulate various Microsoft Office formats based on Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format. JasperReports takes advantage of Jakarta POI for exporting reports to XLS (Microsoft Excel) format.

• JAXP refers to the Java API for parsing and transforming XML documents. It is used by JasperReports to parse XML files.

• Jakarta Commons: Jakarta Commons is a collection of Java libraries providing a large number of reusable components. JasperReports takes advantage of the Digester, BeanUtils, and Logging components of Jakarta Commons to complement JAXP for XML parsing.

^{Source: "JasperReports for Java Developers" by David R. Heffelfinger}