Adding geometrical shapes to a report

JasperReports supports adding lines, rectangles, and ellipses to a report. This capability allows us to display simple graphics in a report. The following sections will discuss each one of these elements in detail:

Adding lines to a report

Lines can be added to a report by using the JRXML element <line>. A line is drawn as a diagonal from one corner of the area defined by its <reportElement> subelement to the other. The JRXML <line> element has a single attribute direction; this attribute has two valid values: BottomUp, which indicates that the line will go from the bottom corner to the top one, and TopDown, which indicates that the line will go from the top corner to the bottom one. The default value for the direction attribute is TopDown.

The following example demonstrates the use of the <line> element:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"  ?>
<jasperReport
  xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports"
 ...