01 - Getting JFreeReport

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In this section you will see that JFreeReport can be retrieved in different ways but the standard users will certainly choose to download the bundle whereas contributors will choose to grab the sources from the versioning system.
JFreeReport team and support can be reached either on JFree or on SourceForge. You can also get it from Pentaho but we will talk about them later in this article.
As you should know if you planned to use this reporting library you need a Java platform properly installed. It requires at least a version compatible Java 1.2.2. You can dowload the lastest version from the Sun web site.
Whatever type of JFreeReport download you choose, you will get the following layout:

• the Java sources of JFreeReport, located in the sources/ directory.
• a set of libraries that may be used, located in the lib/ directory.
• the building system configuration based on Ant, located in the ant/ directory.
• the code conventions used by the contributors based on Checkstyle, located in the checkstyle/ directory.
• ressource directory

Bundled distribution

Versioning System

Building