Maven 2 JasperReports Plugin

This plug-in compiles JasperReports xml design files to Java source and .jasper serialized files.

How to Use

In your pom.xml, insert this segment:

<project>
  ...
  
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>jasperreports</groupId>
      <artifactId>jasperreports</artifactId>
      <version>${your.jasperreports.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      [...]
  </dependencies>
  
  <build>
      ...
      <plugins>
        ...
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
          <artifactId>jasperreports-maven-plugin</artifactId>
          <executions>
            <execution>
              <goals>
                <goal>compile-reports</goal>
              </goals>
            </execution>
          </executions>
          
          <dependencies>
            <!--note this must be repeated here to pick up correct xml validation -->
            <dependency>
              <groupId>jasperreports</groupId>
              <artifactId>jasperreports</artifactId>
              <version>${your.jasperreports.version}</version>
            </dependency>
          </dependencies>
          
        </plugin>
        ...
      </plugins>
      ...
    </build>
  ...
</project>

By default, the compile-reports mojo runs at generate-resources phase. However, you might need to bind the mojo to the compile phase if your report uses classes under target/classes.

Your xml design files should be in src/main/jasperreports and have a .jrxml extension by default.

It is necessary to declare your own jasperreports on both project and plugin's dependency lists. This first one is used for compilation purpose. The later is used to pickup correct xml validation, other wise, it will use the undesired one which comes with this plugin ( ie version 1.2.0 ) See MOJO-1254 for details