Pentaho Reporting 3.7 ===================== 1. Introduction --------------Pentaho Reporting is Java class library for generating reports.

It provides flexible reporting and printing functionality using data from multiple sources and supports output to display devices, printers, PDF, Excel, XHTML, PlainText, XML and CSV files. The Pentaho Report Designer provides a graphical editor for report definitions and can also be used as standalone desktop reporting tool. The library is optimized for performance and a small memory footprint and can run completely in memory without generating temporary files or requiring extra compilation steps. Pentaho Reporting gives the user a great degree of flexibility while designing reports. This software is free and opensource software available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Version 2.1. 2. Available Distributions -------------------------Pentaho Reporting is a modular system and depending on the feature set you use, you may need a different set of applications or libraries. Web-Based Reporting If you intend to make reports available over the internet, we recommend to use the Pentaho BI-Server/BI-Platform to host your reports. The Pentaho BI-Platform is a J2EE-Web-Application that provides all services to run and manage reports in a Web-2.0 environment. Standalone Reporting The Pentaho Report-Designer can be used as a desktop reporting environment. The designer allows you to create and run reports manually and to create all supported document types (PDF, HTML, Text, RTF, Excel and CSV-files). Embedded Reporting The Pentaho Reporting Engine consists of a set of base libraries, the reporting engine core and several extension modules, which provide additional datasources as well as charting and barcode capabilities. The Pentaho Reporting Engine ships with a Swing Print Preview dialog, which can be easily embedded into an existing Java/Swing application. The dialog offers access to all supported export file formats. We created a SDK with four simple code examples and documents that walk you through the code to get you started more easily.

3. System Requirements ---------------------Pentaho Reporting requires a minimum of 192MB of allocated heap-space to process reports. Reports with more than 400 pages or about 50.000 rows of data may require additional memory and/or adjustments to the global configuration parameters of the reporting engine. The Pentaho Reporting Engine requires Java 1.5 or higher. The Pentaho Report Designer and Pentaho Report Design Wizard need at least Java 1.6 or higher. Warning: -------Pentaho Reporting requires a Java Runtime environment that is fully compatible to the Java Platform Specification 5.0 (JSR-176). It will not run with the GNU GCJ suite of tools. 4. Installation --------------A. Windows Download the ZIP distribution. The Pentaho Report Designer can be extracted into any directory. We recommend that you place the report-designer into "C:\Program Files\report-designer" (or an equivalent) directory. Start the application by executing (or double-clicking) either the "report-designer.bat" file or the launcher.jar file. B. Linux/Solaris/Unix Download either the ZIP or the TAR.GZ distribution. The Pentaho Report Designer can be extracted into any directory. We recommend that you place the report-designer into "/opt/report-designer" (or an equivalent) directory. Start the application by executing either cd /opt/report-designer ./report-designer.sh or java -jar /opt/report-designer/launcher.jar C. MacOS Download the Mac-OS specific ZIP file and extract it by double clicking on it in the Finder. Move the extracted "Pentaho Report Designer" application into your Applications folder. 5. Documentation ---------------The Javadoc HTML pages for the latest release of Pentaho Reporting are

available at http://javadoc.pentaho.com/reporting/ You can also regenerate the Javadocs directly from the source code. There is a task "javadoc" in the Ant script (see below) that makes this relatively simple. The reporting engine and thus most of the features of the report designer are well documented in Will Gorman's excellent book "Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers". https://www.packtpub.com/pentaho-reporting-3-5-for-java-developers/book Technical articles and general documentation can be found in our Wiki. http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/Reporting/ If you intend to embed Pentaho Reporting in your own applications, the SDK contains a thorough step-by-step guide to the enclosed examples. 6. Reporting Bugs ----------------Free support is available via the Pentaho Reporting forum. http://forums.pentaho.org/forumdisplay.php?f=57 Please note that questions are answered by volunteers, so there is no guaranteed response time or level of service. Please avoid e-mailing the developers directly for support questions. If you post a message in the forum, then everyone can see the question, and everyone can see the answer. If you found a bug, please either discuss it in the forum or report it in our JIRA system. You will need to create a JIRA login before reporting the bug. Access to our JIRA system is free for everyone. http://jira.pentaho.com/ 7. Commercial Support --------------------Pentaho offers commercial support for Pentaho Reporting with guaranteed response times. Please see http://www.pentaho.com/products/reporting/ for more details.