Now that you have learnt the Pentaho Reporting Engine Data API basics, in this section, you will dive deep into the DataFactory implementations available as part of the Pentaho Reporting Engine. For better understanding, you will learn about the commonly used DataFactory implementations, including working examples for the most common and used factories. As you saw many times in the previous chapters of the book, all the examples are available in the https://github.com/fcorti/pentaho-8-reporting-for-java-developers repository; specifically, in the Chapter 12 - Developing using data sources folder.
In all the following examples, you will not find the preview of the final reports. This is not because the layout is not relevant, but, this chapter is focused more on the data source configuration. The suggestion is always the same...
