Licensing

Aspose.Cells for JasperReports is available as a free, time unlimited evaluation from the download page. The evaluation and licensed versions of the product is the same download.

When you are happy with the evaluation version, you can purchase a license. Make sure you understand and agree to the license terms.

The license is available for download from the order page when the order has been paid. The license is a clear text, digitally signed XML file. The license contains information such as the client name, purchased product and license type. Do not modify the content of the license file: doing so invalidates the license.

There are two ways to apply a license:

• Call setLicense
• Set an exporter parameter in applicationContext.xml

After installing the license,

• Verify that it works.

Call setLicense

This method is applicable for use with JasperReports.

Download the license to your computer and copy it to the appropriate folder (for example your application’s folder or JasperReports\lib). Add the following code to your project:

import com.aspose.cells.jasperreports.*;

// Create a stream object containing the license file

FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream("C:\\Aspose.Cells.JasperReports.lic");

// Set the license through the stream object

License license = new License();

license.setLicense(fstream);

Set the licenseFile Exporter Parameter in applicationContext.xml

This method is applicable for use with JasperServer.

1. Download the license to your computer and copy it to the <InstallDir>\apache-tomcat\webapps\jasperserver\WEB-INF folder, where <InstallDir> stands for the JasperServer installation directory.
2. Locate the <InstallDir>\apache-tomcat\webapps\jasperserver\WEB-INF\applicationContext.xml file and add the following lines:

XML

  <bean id="excelACExportParameters" class="com.aspose.cells.jasperreports.ACXlsExportParametersBean">

    <property name="licenseFile" value="C:/jasperserver-3.0/apache-tomcat/webapps/jasperserver/WEB-INF/Aspose.Cells.JasperReports.lic"/>

</bean>

Verify the License Works

Export any report to XLS format and check if the report contains an evaluation message. If there is no evaluation message, then the license is working properly.

Aspose.Cells for JasperReports injects an evaluation worksheet in evaluation mode

When a valid license there is no evaluation worksheet