Integrate Authentication on Jasper Report Server with LDAP Server

Jasper Report Server offers its own built-in user manangement module, but in case you want to intregate Jasper Server with the LDAP or AD to centralize user management system so you could manage user access control easier. In this case, Jasper Server also provide LDAP integration feature to integrate Jasper Server User Management Module via LDAP such as OpenLDAP or Active Directory. In this tutorial, I will show how to integrate Jasper Server with Open ldap for user authentication. Read more

Creating and deploying report with Webservice datasource

 In previous post, I have shown how to creae report in the jasper report studio and deployed the report on jasper server by using JDBC and JNDI datasource. It is very easy if you need only one database to create your reports. but what if you need to use two or more database, xml, excel files to create your reports. In this case, you need new approach to fetch all data you need from the datasources, manipulate in to single datasource and feed those data into your reports. Jasper Report Server support several datasources which included solution for this scenario. Manipluating multiple datasource into single one and allow reports consume those data could be done through,JRDataSource and Webservice datasource. In this post, I will show how to use webservice includes REST and SOAP webservice as datasource to develop and deploy the report into the server. Read more

Deploy Jasper Report on Jasper Report Server

Once you have created report on the report studio. You are going to need to deploy your report into the server or application. In this post, I will show how to deploy deploy the report into Jasper report server by using Jasper Report Studio.Deploying reports by using is very easy. But before I could deploy the reports, I need to create datasource in the server. JasperReport Server provide many facilities to reports from Jasper Report Studio by connecting direct from the studio to the server. In this post, I will demonstate how to create JNDI datasource, JDBC datasoure, Web service and Custom Java Bean Datasource. Once creating datasource, I will deploy reports by using created datasources.Read more