In this chapter, you completed the journey into the advanced features of Pentaho Reporting from a development perspective. With the help of practical and useful examples, you started by learning how to develop a Pentaho report in different languages with the support of the Java i18N. Then you saw how to develop a subreport programmatically using Java and, in the end, you saw how to develop cross tabs using Java.

Now that you have read this chapter, you should feel comfortable with the Pentaho Reporting Engine and all the technical details around developing a Pentaho report programmatically. This is an advanced task for developers, creating complex Pentaho reports that are embedded in your custom projects using Java.

As a developer, in the next chapter you will see how to build interactive reports based on events. Event bindings are defined in Pentaho reports...