[Feature Request] Support Jasper Reports 7.01

[yellek]

Description

Jasper Reports Studio 7.0.1
Archi 5.0.2
When running the Jasper Blank_A4 template, with "Hello World!" static text in the report header, an exception is thrown by Archi (see screenshot). This works when Jasper Reports Studio 6.21.3 is used to create the report.

[Phillipus]

There are breaking changes in Jasper Reports 7. See https://github.com/TIBCOSoftware/jasperreports/releases/tag/7.0.0

breaking backward compatibility of source *.jrxml report template files and *.jrtx style
template files by replacing the Apache Commons Digester based parsers with Jackson XML object
serialization. *.jrxml and *.jrtx files created with version 6 or older can no longer be loaded
with version 7 or newer of the library alone. The conversion from the old file formats to the new
file formats and back can be made using Jaspersoft Studio 7 and later versions of it;

So we won't be updating to version 7 anytime soon, at least not without knowing all the implications of what's required for conversion and backward compatibility. If anyone really needs version 7 they should investigate these issues and provide guidance and/or a pull request.

For now, Archi 5.5 will use a later version of Jasper Reports Library 6.

[Phillipus]

For now, Archi 5.5 will use a later version of Jasper Reports Library 6.

Note that there is an issue with using later versions of JR (6.13 and later) where JR creates lots of temporary font files and these are nor deleted on Windows. See Jaspersoft/jasperreports#505

Until this is fixed we'll use JR 6.12.2.