Crystal report with no JSP

Question

i got a question here... i am now trying to display a sample crystal report (.rpt) on my application. It isn't web based.. it's just a simple java application. i try to call the report and display it using ReportViewerBean which is a viewer in package :
com.seagatesoftware.img.ReportViewer.ReportViewerBean
ReportViewerBean b = new ReportViewerBean(); b.setReportName("http://localhost:8080/?report=file:c:/SAMPLE_REPORTS/BalanceSheet.rpt");
b.setShowGroupTree(false);// Set Show Group Tree to False
b.init();//Show the Frame
it needs a url for the report location and i figure i need to put the report on a server.. currently, i am connecting to a jboss server to save and retrieve database data from mysql.
where should i put the report in the jboss directories? and when my java application runs, (it's an applet actually) i just click "view report" for eg, and it will connect to jboss and jboss will noe wat i am requesting?do i dun need to specify paths? coz how would jboss knows where to retrieve the report from?
currently, i am specifying it to the c: drive.. which is not working..
i got lotsa questions on this.. quite a headache actually coz i am new to jboss... thanx in advance..
=)
chris

Answer 1

Quite a few problems with that appoach,
Firstly crystal enterprise on IIS is required to be installed.
Secondly copy the report into the wwwroot folder on the server.
Try accessing the report through a browser as an unmanged report
eg http://<your server>/BalanceSheet.rpt
This should bring up the report as an HTML page. If this doesnt work you havent got things setup properly and you can forget about attempting to use the ReportViewerBean because it wont work either.
If that works then you can use the viewer to do a
ReportViewerBean b = new ReportViewerBean();
b.setReportName("http://<your server>/BalanceSheet.rpt");
b.setShowGroupTree(false);// Set Show Group Tree to False
b.init();//Show the Frame