I n the early days of JasperReportsTM development, users had to manually edit report template files,
and the only visual tool to help them see what they were doing was the built-in report design pre-
view tool.
Of course, JasperReports, as a content-rendering library, was, and still is, mainly a developer
tool that provides reporting functionality to JavaTM applications that need it. Developers are used
to working with source code files and XML, so not having a visual tool at the time did not prevent
them from downloading JasperReports and using it right away.
But as things moved forward and JasperReports provided new features to its users, it soon
became apparent there was a need for more advanced tools that would simplify report design work
and make it more enjoyable.
I started to work on such a tool myself at the time and realized that the complexity of the proj-
ect and the effort required would probably distract me from what I was doing on JasperReports. I
decided to not take up this challenge of creating a visual designer for JasperReports and continued
to concentrate on the report engine.
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