Map datasources

JasperReports allows us to use instances of any class implementing the java.util.Map interface as a datasource. We can use either an array or a collection of Map objects to generate a report. Each Map in the collection or array is a record that will be used to generate the data for each row in the detail area of the report. The JasperReports API provides an implementation of net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRDataSource called net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.JRMapArrayDataSource that we can use for using an array of Map objects as a datasource. The following example demonstrates this class in action:

package net.ensode.jasperbook;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http...