Does JasperReports/iReport work with Hibernate annotations?

Question

I'd like to integrate existing application with JasperReports. However, when creating report with iReport the wizard is asking me for hibernate.hbm.xml. Since I'm using annotations I simply don't have one. Does iReport work with Hibernate annotations? If so, how can I configure iReport?

Answer 1

I don't know if iReport can work with annotations, and even if that is the case, you still need a hibernate.hbm.xml (or a manual configuration, or spring).

What I suggest is to use the hibernate entities as POJOs in JasperReport - i.e. using BeanCollectionDataSource, and do all the operations for fetching the collection "outside" of JasperReport