JasperReports: Cover page

Question

I have a JasperReport and I want to create for this report a cover page. The cover page must contain some information coming from the DB, like Company name, etc. I am trying

Answer 1

I possibly misunderstood the question, because the accepted answer goes about discouraging subreports, which are the perfect solution for a cover (just put it in the TITLE band). Subreports are actually the killer feature of JR. It's true they aren't simple, but they can be implemented without any tweaking nor bending of the available toolset. And I use them EXACTLY when the dataset queries are widely different...