Reporting With Jasper Reports and Jasper Server Reporting is an important part of enterprise programming. Almost all applications eventually need reporting to show the statistics or usage data to its customers/users. In most of the applications no special technology is used for reporting. Reporting modules are coded like any other modules of the application. If reporting needs are minimal this is a sensible choice however if these needs are getting bigger, it is more suitable to use a reporting solution. There are lots of reporting solutions in the market. When choosing a solution for your needs, you should think some of the parameters 1) Open source or commercial 2) If open source the community behind the reporting system 3) Designer support for developing reports 4) Maturity of the reporting system 5) The license type of the reporting system for the usage in third party applications 6) Dynamic report generation etc. Jasper Server and Jasper Reports are open source solutions for the reporting needs of the programs. Jasper Reports is a Java library to programmatically generate reports. e. IReport is the designer for developing Jasper Reports in JRXML format. Jasper Server is a complete reporting server that can store reports, manage the execution and schedule of the reports that is developed according to Jasper Reports. All of them are being develolped and maintained by Jasper Forge. You can download Jasper Server from the following address http://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperserver/files/latest/download Also you can download Jasper Reports library from this address http://community.jaspersoft.com/project/jasperreports-library