How to configure Maven in Jaspersoft Studio?

Question

I'm building a complex project that depends of various modules. For exporting to PDF I'm using JasperReport API and for developing reports I'm using Jaspersoft Studio, version 6.4.0.

In the way to avoid duplicated queries, I'm sending all data via parameters to the report, the type of this parameters are custom beans. Those beans are contained in another project (This must be so, because those beans are being used in view layer of another application). When I import those beans as jar library dependency contained in a ".jar" file directly in Jaspersoft Studio project, reports compile perfectly.

Now I'm trying to use Maven to include this dependencies, but Jaspersoft Studio doesn't contain Maven libraries, and I can't do this.

I've tried install maven from repository (http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases) but this doesn't work:

Help > Install new software > ...

It tell me that require more bundles, I've install lot of bundles manually but always require more and I don't know if this is viable.

Has someone complete Maven configuration in Jaspersoft Studio? If so, I would appreciate to know how. I can also use other options while using Maven to manage the dependencies

Answer 1

I too faced similar issue. Since maven (M2Eclipse) needs other dependent tools to function like WTP etc (you can see those in error log details), I figured it would be more time-consuming in finding all those dependencies & install them.

Ultimately, I installed jaspersoft plugin into my eclipse.

From the following link, you can install jaspersoft plugin from into your eclipse by drag-drop of the install button on your eclipse platform.

https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/jaspersoft-studio

Or you can find it in eclipse marketplace & install it from there.

I installed it on STS. And it installed successfully.

Hope, someone finds this useful.