Step 1: Open your favorite browser and type https://community.jaspersoft.com/download press enter. And then you will see the official download page of Jasper community. Please see the image below.
Step 2: On this page, we have two choices for download. First is a community edition which is free for use and has some limitation. Also, we have another option “Enterprise edition” to download. And it is available for 60-days free trial. If you are going to use commercially then you must purchase a license. If you are a student or just want to do some hands-on practice then you can proceed with the community edition version. In this tutorial, I am using a free version which is a community edition for learning purpose only.
Now click on the download button as shown in below image:
Then you will be redirected to another page which will look as given in below image with multiple jasper tools.
Once you click the link, a popup message box will appear where you just click on “No thanks” to close this and the new web page will appear, here on this page, we will see the message that download is going to start in next 5 second. In the next 5 second exe will start downloading on your computer. Please see the below image.
Downloading will take time as per your net connection speed it is about 372 MB in size. So please have patience and wait for complete downloading. Once it completes so just double click on exe to run.
Step 3: Once you click your window will ask permission for installation so just click the “YES” button and finally you will see very first setup window:
Then on License agreement page click “I Agree” button to proceed. Then you will see below screen as shown in below image.
Here you have to select the destination folder for installation of Jasper Soft Studio. By default, it will install in the Program Files folder in ‘C:’ drive. You can change the drive location on this screen by clicking on the Browse button. Then click on the Install button.
Once you click Install button you will see a window with a progress bar with green color.
Jasper soft exe extracting all important file and installing on your machine. Once it will complete 100% progress it will show you below the screen that will display the following message with a checkbox that is by default checked.
Now just click on finish button as shown in the above screen to complete the installation and it will be ready to launch jasper soft studio for development of jasper reports.
After clicking on ‘Finish’ button you will see a splash screen on your system. Please see the below image.
It takes at least 30-40 seconds to launch setup on your windows system because we are running it the first time. So don’t worry about it. After 30 seconds it will show you a progress bar like shown in the below image.
In the next 30 second, Jaspersoft will be launched and you will be able to see the home page of Jaspersoft studio.
Bingo!!! Installation is done successfully now you guys can proceed to start developing your first jasper report.
If you guys have any doubts so please comment. I will try my best to provide the best solution to your question and doubts.
Thank for reading. 🙂