Few months ago I contributed to review a book called "JasperReports 3.6 development cookbook" as a technical reviewer, recently the book was published and I thought to write few words about the book. When I receive the first few chapters for review, I went through them quickly and first thing came into my mind was those days I was stuck with JasperReports as a beginner, which is around 2007. At that time there were few books available for JasperReports but all of them try to introduce basics of JasperReports, once I jump in to implement a real world reports for a client project I realized those books not that much helpful to me, sometimes I stuck for few days in very small area, I already post few blog posts based on those experience.
The main exciting feature of "JasperReports 3.6 development cookbook" is author targets developers who want to implements real world business reports not beginners or students. The book covers number of recipes and addresses various areas of business reporting, unlike introductory level books developers can keep this book exactly like a cook book and use those recipes when ever they want to implement such requirements or they can modify those recipes according to their requirements.
Also this book provide well organized steps by steps guidelines for each recipe, those who have very basic knowledge about JasperReports also can study and try out these recipes without any trouble. Author does not expect much experience from readers, he describe from very basic level such as environment settings, database settings etc.
The only drawback according to my point of view is this book is not that much helpful for those who entirely new to JasperReports and reporting area, but there are couple of good books available to fill that gap.
In summary this is a great book that not belong to category of 'read and throw’ because this covers many day to day techniques essential for Java based business reporting. But if you are beginner it's better to refer any other JasperReports book or refer JasperReports documentation before study this book so that you can get best usage from this.![]()
The main exciting feature of "JasperReports 3.6 development cookbook" is author targets developers who want to implements real world business reports not beginners or students. The book covers number of recipes and addresses various areas of business reporting, unlike introductory level books developers can keep this book exactly like a cook book and use those recipes when ever they want to implement such requirements or they can modify those recipes according to their requirements.
Also this book provide well organized steps by steps guidelines for each recipe, those who have very basic knowledge about JasperReports also can study and try out these recipes without any trouble. Author does not expect much experience from readers, he describe from very basic level such as environment settings, database settings etc.
The only drawback according to my point of view is this book is not that much helpful for those who entirely new to JasperReports and reporting area, but there are couple of good books available to fill that gap.
In summary this is a great book that not belong to category of 'read and throw’ because this covers many day to day techniques essential for Java based business reporting. But if you are beginner it's better to refer any other JasperReports book or refer JasperReports documentation before study this book so that you can get best usage from this.
