Pentaho 8 Reporting for Java Developers: Create pixel-perfect analytical reports using reporting tools

Key Features

• Exclusive book to learn the basics and advanced features around Pentaho 7 Reporting.
• A book written for Developers and Analysts with IT skills to discover how to develop and practice the best reports using the Pentaho platform.
• Written with a very practical approach: full of tutorials and practical examples (source code included).

Book Description

This hands-on tutorial, filled with exercises and examples, introduces the reader to a variety of concepts within Pentaho Reporting. With screenshots that show you how reports look at design time as well as how they should look when rendered as PDF, Excel, HTML, Text, Rich-Text-File, XML and CSV, this book also contains complete example source code that you can copy and paste into your environment to get up and running quickly. Updated to cover the recently released Pentaho 7, this book will teach you everyhing you need to know to build fast, efficient reports using Pentaho.If your interest lies in the technical details of creating reports and you want to see how to solve common reporting problems with a minimum of fuss, this is the book for you.

What you will learn

• Basics around Pentaho Reporting(Designer and SDK) & Initial Setup.
• Develop the most attractive reports on top of a wide range of data sources.
• Customize in details layout, parametrization, internationalization, behaviours, etc. of your custom reports developed with Pentaho Reporting.
• Integrate Pentaho reports into a third party Java application having a full control of interactions, layout and behaviour in general.
• Use Pentaho reports in the other components of the Pentaho Suite (BA Platform and PDI).