Creation of reports using JasperReports

Question

Hi all!
I have a problem with developing Java code for printing reports, by using JasperReports tool.
I'm trying to create report by using next peace of code (you can found it also on http://ensode.net/jasperreports_intro.html)
package myReport;
import java.util.HashMap;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JREmptyDataSource;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperCompileManager;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperExportManager;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperPrint;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperReport;
public class Sample
public static void main(String[] args)
JasperReport jasperReport;
JasperPrint jasperPrint;
try
jasperReport = JasperCompileManager.compileReport("c:\\report_1.jrxml");
jasperPrint = JasperFillManager.fillReport(jasperReport, new HashMap(), new JREmptyDataSource());
//JasperExportManager.exportReportToPdfFile(jasperPrint, "c:\\simple_report.pdf");
catch (JRException e)
e.printStackTrace();
I'm getting the following error:
Exception in thread main
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.apache.commons.digester.SetNestedPropertiesRule
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.xml.JRXmlLoader.load(JRXmlLoader.java:202)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.xml.JRXmlLoader.load(JRXmlLoader.java:167)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.xml.JRXmlLoader.load(JRXmlLoader.java:151)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperCompileManager.compileReport(JasperCompileManager.java:142)
at myReport.Sample.main(Sample.java:20)
BTW, file report_1.jrxml I created using iReport.
Can somebody help me how to solve this, and to create my report? Always, all the time with different examples I got same errors, I guess that I done somethiong wrong on in setup, or classpath, or something like that...
Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

dvohra09, first of all, thank you on your reply.
But I still running round in circles...
With following code (from JasperReports and Jdeveloper
package myReport;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JREmptyDataSource;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperCompileManager;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperExportManager;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperPrint;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperReport;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.design.JasperDesign;
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.xml.JRXmlLoader;
public class Sample
public static void main(String[] args)
try
InputStream input=new FileInputStream(new File("c:/jasperreports_demo.xml"));
JasperDesign design = JRXmlLoader.load(input);
catch (JRException e)
... I'm gettnig following error:
C:\jdeveloper\jdk\bin\javaw.exe -ojvm -classpath C:\jdeveloper\jdev\mywork\Workspace3\Project1\classes;C:\jdeveloper\jlib\jasperreports-1.2.7.jar;C:\jdeveloper\jakarta-struts\lib\commons-beanutils.jar;C:\jdeveloper\jakarta-struts\lib\commons-collections.jar;C:\jdeveloper\jakarta-struts\lib\commons-digester.jar;C:\jdeveloper\jakarta-struts\lib\commons-logging.jar myReport.Sample
Exception in thread main
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.apache.commons.digester.SetNestedPropertiesRule
     at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.xml.JRXmlLoader.load(JRXmlLoader.java:202)
     at myReport.Sample.main(Sample.java:27)
Process exited with exit code 1.
Also, as you can see, my path is defined as:
C:\jdeveloper\jlib\jasperreports-1.2.7.jar;C:\jdeveloper\jakarta-struts\lib\commons-beanutils.jar;C:\jdeveloper\jakarta-struts\lib\commons-collections.jar;C:\jdeveloper\jakarta-struts\lib\commons-digester.jar;C:\jdeveloper\jakarta-struts\lib\commons-logging.jar
I'm developnig using JDeveloper 10g.
Can you help more with this, please?
10000x thanx in advance!