JasperAssistant is a visual report designer for JasperReports, a popular open-source reporting engine. JasperAssistant is built on top of the Eclipse's plug-in architecture and its main goal is to help you create JasperReports report definition files through an intuitive graphical interface.

JasperAssistant opens for you the door to the best open-source reporting engine available - JasperReports. JasperReports offers you a free reporting library for your commercial and non-commercial Java projects with no deployment or any other fees.

JasperAssistant in its turn gives you a professional designer that is able to save you a great amount of development time. Combine the two, and you get an accessible reporting solution which easily matches many high-priced commercial counterparts.

Benefits:
· Design and layout your reports using an intuitive visual interface and avoid the need for XML editing of JasperReports templates.
· Take advantage of Eclipse IDE integration and effectively combine Java and JasperReports development.
· Efficiently locate and correct report problems using precise error indications.
· Preview your reports instantly using live data from a JDBC database connection, an XML document, JavaBeans array or a custom data source.
· Export and preview your reports in PDF, Excel, HTML, CSV and XML formats.

Here are some key features of "JasperAssistant":
· "What you see is what you get" visual report designer.
· Complete integration with Eclipse IDE environment.
· Support for all the features of JasperReports up to version 1.2.1
· An integrated report compiler.
· Report preview support
· Report Export wizard
· Support for compiled report files (*.jasper)
· Drag-and-drop interface.
· Unlimited Undo/Redo support.
· Cut/Copy/Paste support.
· Properties View.
· Outline View.
· Problems/Tasks View.
· Intuitive Context Menus.
· A dedicated toolbar for text objects.
· Zoom support.
· A customizable palette.
· A comprehensive set of align and resize actions.
· Intuitive Expression Editor.
· Integrated user documentation.
· Field Wizard.
· Grid and Snap To Grid support.
· Rulers, Guides and Snap to Guides support.
· Extensible shortcuts support.
· Full support for JasperReports data sources.

What's New in This Release:
· This version brings full support for JasperReports crosstabs by providing a dedicated crosstab editor.