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Both are tools for visually designing reports and both come from the same vendor.
Why is Jaspersoft pushing two similar technologies?
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iReport is a graphical report designer tool that uses JasperReports API. Designing the reports become easy if we use iReport. On the other hand, JasperReports API is the build that was/is being released by Jasper Team(JasperSoft) that provide necessary jar files that are helpfull in creating reports.
Jaspersoft Studio is a powerful desktop report designer for developing data visualizations and full-fledged reports. Featuring the industry's most advanced design environment, it enables you to create highly formatted, pixel-perfect reports and data visualizations.
iReport is the free, open source report designer for JasperReports and JasperReports Server. Create very sophisticated layouts containing charts, images, subreports, crosstabs and much more. Access your data through JDBC, TableModels, JavaBeans, XML, Hibernate, CSV, and custom sources.
iReport is a powerful graphical design tool for report designers and power users to define reports for execution using the JasperReports engine.
In the FAQ of http://www.jaspersoft.com:
Why is Jaspersoft Doing this?
For years our community of developers asked us to support the Eclipse platform due to its popularity and capabilities. This feedback made the decision to build an Eclipse-based report designer easy. Jaspersoft users will benefit from the rich capabilities of the Eclipse platform and Eclipse developers will benefit from a complete open source BI stack to build and deploy their reports. We also aim to create a report design environment that is both powerful and intuitive so that it appeals to both the advanced and the first-time report developer.
So I think this is simply a fork with the goal to provide the designer as an eclipse based application.
Plus they also provide the designer as a plugin version for Eclipse:
Which Eclipse releases does Jaspersoft Studio work with?
The plugin version of Jaspersoft Studio can be installed on Eclipse IDE 3.5 or later. The compatible Eclipse releases are Indigo, Helios and Galileo.
Anyway I could not download the Jaspersoft Studio to give it a try because the download page does currently not exist.
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