A visual history of OpenReports
After reading a recent press release from JasperSoft about the 5th anniversary of JasperReports and the 4th anniversary of iReport, I decided to take a look back and see where OpenReports fits into the JasperReports time line. Here are the dates the projects were created on SourceForge.net:
JasperReports – September 2001
JasperEdit – April 2002
OpenReports – June 2002
iReport – October of 2002
JasperEdit was probably the first open source project built using JasperReports. It was a simple tool for editing, compiling, and running JasperReports XML definition files. JasperEdit evolved into OpenReports Designer, but was soon eclipsed in features and popularity by iReport and is no longer in development.
OpenReports 0.1, released in June of 2002, was a small web application for running JasperReports. It was developed using a very early version of the Echo framework and used XML files to define reports, parameters, and data sources.
OpenReport 0.1
OpenReports 0.5, released in October of 2003, was a major milestone release for OpenReports. It was built using WebWork and Hibernate, and replaced XML files with a web based administration console.
OpenReports 0.5
In the three years since the OpenReports 0.5 release, the competitive landscape has changed greatly but OpenReports is still going strong. Here’s a screenshot of the latest release:
OpenReports 2.1
In closing, I would like to thanks the JasperSoft team, especially Teodor and Giulio for their excellent work on JasperReports and iReport. If I had not discovered JasperReports five year ago, I would probably never have created OpenReports.
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