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JasperReports Requirements

This table contains all the libraries that JasperReports may require, depending on the functionality required by JasperReports's parent application.

JRE	Java Runtime Environment 5.0 or higher
Commons	Jakarta Commons BeanUtils Component (version 1.8.0 or later) http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/beanutils/ Jakarta Commons Collections Component (version 2.1.1 or later) http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/collections/ Jakarta Commons Javaflow (Sandbox version) http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/javaflow/ Jakarta Commons Logging Component (version 1.0.4 or later) http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging/
JRXML	JAXP 1.1 XML Parser Jakarta Commons Digester Component (version 1.7 or later) http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/digester/ One of the following for report compilation, depending on the report compiler used: Eclipse JDT Java Compiler (recommended) http://www.eclipse.org/jdt/ JDK 5.0 or higher Jikes Compiler http://jikes.sourceforge.net Groovy (version 1.5.5 or later) http://groovy.codehaus.org BeanShell (version 2.0 beta 4 or later) http://www.beanshell.org
JDBC	JDBC 2.0 Driver
PDF	iText - Free Java-PDF library by Bruno Lowagie and Paulo Soares (version 2.1.7 or later) http://www.lowagie.com/iText/
XLS	Jakarta POI (version 3.6 or later) http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ JExcelApi (version 2.6.10 or later) http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/
Charts	JFreeChart (1.0.12 or later) http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/ JCommon (1.0.15 or later) - required by JFreeChart http://www.jfree.org/jcommon/ Batik SVG Toolkit (1.7 or later) - required when rendering charts as SVG http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/