Chapter 8. Other JasperReports Features

JasperReports has several features that allow us to create elaborate reports. In this chapter, we will discuss some of these features.

Some of the features we will cover in this chapter include:

  • How to display report text in different languages by using report localization/internationalization
  • How to execute snippets of Java code by using scriptlets
  • How to create crosstab (cross-tabulation) reports
  • How to use subdatasets to run a query with the results of a different query
  • How to add anchors, hyperlinks, and bookmarks to the reports in order to ease navigation between report sections

Report localization

JasperReports takes advantage of the Java language's internationalization features to be able to generate reports ...

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