After months of hard work, the first version of iReport for NetBeans (iReport NB) is finally out!
It is not a final release, several things are still missing, but it is a pretty good one. We choose d
the version number 0.9.0 to underline the fact that it is still a working in progress application. The
final release should be completed by the end of this summer (2008), hopefully much sooner.
What are the benefits of iReport for NetBeans respect to the “classic flavor” one? Well,
there are several benefits, the designer has been completely rewritten using the Sun’s Visual
Library (thanks to David Kaspar to get the time to teach me the ropes of this little jewelery), the
internal report model is no longer a custom object model, but it is the native model used by
JasperReports itself (the JasperDesign). Teodor Danciu and Lucian Chirita (JasperReports) improved a lot
the report object model adding support for events. The original model was not suitable for a visual
designer, and this is why iReport (and all the other JR designers) implement a custom object model.
iReport NB is the first designer for JasperReports using the native object model of JasperReports
internally. Isn’t great?
Talking of benefits what about having iReport as plugin for NetBeans IDE? If you use NetBeans as IDE,
you can have the power of iReport integrated in your favorite IDE.
The next version of iReport NB is scheduled for the end of march. This will be a new major update
including support for crosstabs and conditional styles. Stay tuned!
Giulio Toffoli
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October 8th, 2008 at 9:55 am
How to pass the date with the time as parameter when i need to excecute this type of query
select * from
employee
where
created_date = to_date(’2008/09/30 23:59:59′,’yyyy/MM/dd HH24:MI:SS’)
I want to pass 2008/09/30 23:59:59 as a parameter