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JasperReports is a content-rendering library, not a standalone application. It cannot run on its own and must be embedded in another client- or server-side Java application. JasperReports is a pure Java library and can be used on any platform that supports Java. Being a library, JasperReports is completely agnostic about the environment in which it is used for generating reports. All JasperReports functionality is concentrated in a single JAR file, jasperreportsx. x.x.jar, available for download at the following URL: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=36382&package_id=28579 Even though all its reporting functionality is available in this single JAR file, JasperReports relies on other third-party libraries for related required functionality like XML parsing, logging, and PDF and XLS generation. Because JasperReports is a library and cannot run on its own, you do not really install it. “Installing” JasperReports simply means downloading its JAR file and putting it into the classpath of your application along with the other required JAR files.