Crystal Reports 2008 - Eclipse and JNDI connection.

Question

I am evaluting Crystal Reports 2008 .
I want to use JNDI connection that is defined within my app server by Crystal reports so that I'll have better control of the properties defined.
How do I set up JNDI data source connection in Crystal Reports 2008 ?
I defined the following parameters u2026
                JNDI Provider URL : jnp://localhost:1099
                Initla Context as :  org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory
And user name / password  as defined in JBoss setup
I also have  u201Cjboss\client\jbossall-client.jaru201D in the classpath .     
But I am getting Cannot instantiate class exception .
Thanks in Advance for the help.

Answer 1

Mr. Ted, We can expose JNDI connections from the appserver. Infact the database connection pool resoures are exposed as JNDI resources, JMS factory and connections are exposed as JNDI etc.
In fact, JNDI is a means of securely exposing the resources managed by the app server to be used by trusted clients.
We have achieved this on weblogic (8.1 - JDK 1.4.2) but we would like to replicate the same in glassfish app server ver 3.1.2 and would require the proper factory placed inside the rpt as well as the CRConfig.xml.
Otherwise, (if we are using conventional URL string) when we ship the rpt files, we need to place this only as localhost. This mandates the presence of rpt files to be in the same server as database server and database. We want to avaoid this by creating a JNDI and use that database access resource inside the rpt files.