# Report Development Environment

This chapter focuses on the layout of the JReport Designer reporting environment, and the functions of each component of JReport Designer. For simple operations, you have been given a brief how-to introduction. Other complex commands associated with this topic have been covered in detail in the specific feature's chapters and sections.

The JReport development environment consists of the parts as illustrated in the following diagram.

- Menu bar
- Toolbars
- Resource View panel
- Inspector panel
- Toolbox panel
- Catalog Browser panel
- Search Result panel
- Design/View area