Integrating JasperReports with Spring

Spring (http://www.springframework.org) is a very popular framework that helps simplify the development of Java EE applications. The Spring Framework integrates nicely with JasperReports. In this section, we will develop a simple web application using Spring Web MVC, which is Spring's native web application framework.

The web.xml for our simple application is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC"-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>jasperSpring</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>
      org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
    </servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>jasperSpring</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/jasperSpring/*</url-pattern...