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