JasperAssistant (http://www.jasperassistant.com) is a visual report
designer for JasperReports, a popular open-source reporting engine. It
is built on top of the Eclipse's plug-in architecture and its main goal
is to help you create JasperReports report definition files through an
intuitive graphical interface.

What's new:

* Remove horizontal and vertical space actions.
* Vertical align actions for text objects.
* New palette section that allows to quickly create text fields for
displaying current date, time, current page, total pages and more.
* New text field formatting dialog that allows to specify the format
pattern using an interface similar to the one available in Excel.
* Improved the registration process and made it more friendlier towards
the plug-in upgrades.
* Several other minor bugfixes and enhancements.

Main benefits of JasperAssistant:

* Design and layout your reports using an intuitive visual interface
and avoid the need for XML editing of JasperReports templates.
* Use the only designer that fully supports all the features of
JasperReports up to the latest version.
* Take advantage of Eclipse IDE integration and effectively combine
Java and JasperReports development.
* Efficiently locate and correct report problems using precise error
indications.
* Preview your reports instantly using live data from a JDBC database
connection, an XML document, JavaBeans array or a custom data source.
* Export and preview your reports in PDF, Excel, HTML, CSV and XML
formats.
           
For more information please visit http://www.jasperassistant.com