In this chapter, you have walked through a complete example with step-by-step instructions on how to embed Pentaho Reporting in a Java J2EE Application. In the first part of the chapter, you downloaded, installed, and studied the official Pentaho Reporting SDK, discovering its structure, the samples, and the provided guide.
In the second part of the chapter, you developed a brand new web application in Java, using Apache Maven and including the Pentaho Report Engine in the project. To make the example more practical, you saw how to manage the Pentaho report developed in the previous chapter from the Java code. The goal has been to preview the Pentaho report in PDF format, using your browser.
Now that you have read this chapter, you should be confident with the basics about Pentaho Reporting SDK and how to build a Java application consuming Pentaho reports. In the...