Summary
This chapter has given us a quick run through all the non-database datasources supported by JasperReports, including how to create our own.
We have created reports that use no external datasources by using an empty datasource. We also used instances of a class implementing java.util.Map as a datasource by taking advantage of the net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.JRMapArrayDataSource class. We learned to use plain Java objects as datasources by employing the net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRBeanArrayDataSource and net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRBeanCollectionDataSource classes. Besides, we also saw the use of a Swing TableModel and an XML document as a datasource by implementing the net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data. JRTableModelDataSource and ...
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