title: Looking for an alternative to JasperReports
body: <p>Some day ago my boss asked me that he wanted invoices in PDFs from out web application. Given that everybody uses JasperReports and iReport for design I tried it. My web app is based on Java+Hibernate and Spring. At the beginning Jasper seemed fine and iReport too. Anyway I've been stopped by two things:</p>
  
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  <li>iReport is the slowest thing I've ever seen in my life.</li>
  <li>More seriously, I've certain beans that have some class hierarchy and it is very complicated to handle this in Jasper. Everybody in my office uses Jasper with SQL queries, and that way it is an easy and handy tool, but I spent my entire day trying to map my beans to reports and subreports and very little works.</li>
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  <p>I've seen DynamicJasper, but, it seems that I can't design reports with it. What do you think? Are there easier to use alternatives?</p>