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Has anyone ever used Jaspersoft? (self.programming)

submitted 7 months ago by InternetCitizen2 to c/[email protected]

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I am someone who has been trying to pivot into having a tech job. I have used LaTex before as a student and there is a job I am trying to take that uses Jaspersoft to make reports. Is jasper similar to LaTeX? Are there resources you found particularly helpful?

I am currently still looking to get my install, hello world, and combing their site.

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[–] talkingpumpkin 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I last used it a good while ago (like, 10yrs?), so you'll have to verify how what I am about to say applies to current versions (it probably does).

Jasper is an old-school, enterprisey tool similar to Crystal Reports that attempts to give you a WYSIWYG editor for building your reports.

All in all, I'd say that it might be good if you have a reporting department full of people that only do reports and you don't want to train as programmers. If the ones doing the reports are gonna be actual programmers, they'll be much better off generating html/latex/whatever and converting that to pdf.

[–] InternetCitizen2 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah the place I'm trying to work has non programmers doing several reports.