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JSF + JPA + JasperReports (iReport) Part 1

Hi in this post we will see the overview of  JasperReports  and how to integrate into JSF application. JasperReports is the world's most popular open source reporting engine. It is entirely written in Java and it is able to use data coming from any kind of data source and produce pixel-perfect documents that can be viewed, printed or exported in a variety of document formats including HTML, PDF, Excel, OpenOffice and Word.  In Primeface  library also use this JasperReports to generate the PDF, CSV and DOC formats with single line of code. see here . but its not flexible and we cant change template. so here we see the how to use JasperReports for create the template and integrate  JSF 2.0. We are using iReport tool for crating template. Download JasperReports and iReport Jasper Reports download from here . This zip contain jasper library and its dependencies and lots sample codes. iReport download  from here Now create the simple JSF Application to retrieve the data f