Today, Sun has announced the availability of NetBeans v6.5, the latest installment of its very popular Java development environment. The NetBeans community is enormous, reaching more than 600,000 members and spanning 130 countries. Along with the many advancements that Sun will describe in v6.5 (and there are many), Jaspersoft is announcing the general availability of its iReport plug-in for NetBeans. If you’ve been paying attention, you know that Giulio Toffoli (the founder of and primary contributor to the iReport project) has been working with the community toward this v1.0 release for more than six months. During this lengthy beta period, the NetBeans community has been enthusiastically involved - having downloaded the early versions of this iReport plug-in nearly 28,000 times, making it the most popular 3rd party NetBeans downloads during that entire period.

If you’ve not seen the NetBeans version of iReport, you should check out a short video of Giulio demonstrating this product: http://netbeans.tv/screencasts/iReport- from-JasperSoft-357 .

Then, to get your own copy of iReport for NetBeans, simply download and give it a try: http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPort al/faces/MainPage.jsp .

We couldn’t be happier with our progress with this product for the NetBeans community or the community’s response. Overall, this parallels our relationship with Sun, where we are working strategically together to deliver much greater value to the open source software world. Some other recent examples: Jaspersoft’s products have always been built using pure Java, support JavaDB, we’ve certified on Sun’s 64-bit platforms, support Solaris and OpenSolaris, are currently certifying with GlassFish, and have won the Duke’s Choice Award. My guess is that there’ll be more valuable technology advancements between Sun and Jaspersoft before this year is over. For now, you can track Sun’s NetBeans 6.5 announcement here http://blogs.sun.com/ontherecord/ .

Lastly and in case you’ve been wondering what’s up with Jasper4MySQL (the MySQL OEM edition of JasperServer), we’ve recently upgraded it to v3, bringing it up-to-date with all the significant features and capabilities of the latest version of JasperServer Professional Edition (to learn more about Jaspersoft v3, go to http://www.jaspersoft.com/JasperSoft_Version3.h tml ). The MySQL embedded community surely deserves the most advanced open source reporting and analytic environment available, don’t they? We’re glad to deliver it.

Brian Gentile
Chief Executive Officer
Jaspersoft