Welcome to the JReport Enterprise Server User's Guide

This User's Guide describes JReport Enterprise Server. JReport Enterprise Server is a 100% Java report generation and management tool that can be deployed to any Java EE application server. By leveraging its high performance report generation engine and clustering capabilities, JReport scales to meet the most demanding requirements. Using the report scheduling, distributing and alerting capabilities of the JReport Enterprise Server, reporting can be integrated into the workflow of the application.

This guide is written for report administrators or system administrators of Java application that embed JReport reports into their application.

How to use this guide

There are two ways you can navigate through the guide by using the navigation panel to the left of this text:

• From the Contents tab, scan through the chapters and topic titles to see the tasks that you can perform with JReport Enterprise Server. The chapters at the end of the guide are reference chapters.
• From the Search tab, enter a term you want to search for and press Enter. Topics that contain the term are listed. To search within a particular topic, use your web browser's Search feature. For example, in Internet Explorer, right-click in the topic pane and choose Edit > Find. However, if you are using Internet Explorer, in order to make the Search tab work well, the security setting of your Internet Explorer should be kept to the default.

Other JReport documentation

This guide is one in the complete JReport documentation set. The documentation set includes the following:

• JReport Designer User's Guide
• JReport Tutorial
• JReport Viewer User's Guide
• JReport Server Monitor User's Guide
• Server API Javadoc
• Designer and Catalog API Javadoc