Has any body work with Crystal Report XI and JDeveloper 10.1.3 ?

Question

Hi All,
We want to use Crystal Report XI as our reporting tools and integrate it with our jsp/jspx application developed with JDeveloper 10.1.3.
Has any body succesfully done this kind of integration ?
Could you please share it with me ?
Thank you for your info,
xtanto

Answer 1

Hi friends,
I use Crystal Reoprt XI (release 1) with JDev 10.1.3, never try Crystal 10 with JDev.
Here is what I do :
1. Install CR XI on the same machine with JDev 10.1.3.
2. Modify CRConfig.XML on folder : C:\Program Files\Common Files\Business Objects\3.0\java on three places :
<JavaDir>D:\JDev1013\jdk\bin</JavaDir>
<Classpath>D:\JDev1013\jdbc\lib\ocrs12.jar;D:\JDev1013\jdbc\lib\ojdbc14.jar;D:\JDev1013\jdbc\lib\ojdbc14dms.jar;D:\JDev1013\jdbc\lib\orai18n.jar; .... [original classpath]
<JDBCURL>jdbc:oracle:thin:@oracle.sas.co.id:1521:ORCL</JDBCURL>
<JDBCClassName>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</JDBCClassName>
<JDBCUserName>myuserid</JDBCUserName>     <JNDIURL></JNDIURL>
3. Create the report using Crystal XI, USE JDBC CONNECTION, and it takes about 12-20 minutes to connect, don'y know why :)
( now the integration part )
4. Create a project for the report in our apps workspace (e.d : ViewController)
5. Copy these jar files below to D:\..\ViewController\public_html\WEB-INF\lib
(I got the files from Crystal Installation)
04/03/2006 09:27 AM 666,774 CrystalCharting.jar
03/26/2006 12:23 AM 2,163 CrystalCommon.jar
04/03/2006 09:27 AM 94,137 CrystalContentModels.jar
04/03/2006 09:30 AM 519,003 CrystalExporters.jar
04/03/2006 09:27 AM 60,468 CrystalExportingBase.jar
04/03/2006 09:26 AM 561,021 CrystalFormulas.jar
04/03/2006 09:26 AM 390,049 CrystalQueryEngine.jar
04/03/2006 09:28 AM 1,934,849 CrystalReportEngine.jar
04/03/2006 09:25 AM 413,455 CrystalReportingCommon.jar
09/08/2003 02:42 PM 3,915,966 icu4j.jar
04/03/2006 09:29 AM 135,232 jrcerom.jar
02/10/2006 10:39 AM 698,542 jsf-impl.jar
03/26/2006 12:23 AM 8,680 keycodeDecoder.jar
05/11/2004 07:22 PM 352,668 log4j.jar
03/26/2006 08:33 AM 474,429 MetafileRenderer.jar
04/03/2006 08:47 AM 369,503 rasapp.jar
04/03/2006 08:46 AM 784,065 rascore.jar
03/16/2006 09:35 AM 699,443 ReportViewer.jar
04/03/2006 09:25 AM 95,381 rpoifs.jar
04/03/2006 08:46 AM 21,128 serialization.jar
06/17/2006 01:41 PM 393,259 standard.jar
10/02/2003 06:29 PM 3,777 URIUtil.jar
02/28/2006 10:01 AM 48,279 webreporting-jsf.jar
03/07/2006 08:50 AM 778,348 webreporting.jar
02/20/2004 02:01 PM 1,010,806 xercesImpl.jar
02/20/2004 02:01 PM 124,724 xml-apis.jar
6. Right click the project, project properties, Libraries, Add Jar / Directories,
Add all the jar files from previous step.
7. Copy CRConfig.XML to folder D:\..\ViewController (project folder)
( this CRConfig.XML is the one that I have not modified, the original one. )
Please check, you must have this on the file :
<reportlocation>.</reportlocation>
8. Then create a Folder e.g : reports under WEB-INF :
D:\..\ViewController\public_html\WEB-INF\reports, then copy all reports created on step 3 on to this folder.
9. create a jsp to call the report, here is sample of my JSP :
<%@ page
contentType="text/html;charset=windows-1252"
isELIgnored="true" %>
<%@page import="com.crystaldecisions.reports.sdk.*"%>
<%@page import="com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.lib.*"%>
<%@page import="com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.exportoptions.*"%>
<%@page import="com.crystaldecisions.report.web.viewer.*"%>
<%@page import="com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.reportsource.*" %>
<%@page import="com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.data.*" %>
<%@page import = "java.util.*" %>
<%@page import = "view.util.JSFUtils" %>
<%@page import = "oracle.jbo.domain.Number" %>
<%
//Use the relative path to the report; the physical or full qualified URL cannot be used.
//String reportName = "D:/DemoCrystal/Project/public_html/WEB-INF/Report/OrderID2.rpt";
//String reportName = "D:/DemoCrystal/Project/public_html/WEB-INF/Report/test2.rpt";
//String reportName = "D:/DemoCrystal/Project/public_html/WEB-INF/Report/invoice.rpt";
String reportName = "../reports/invoice.rpt";
String userName = "myuserid";
String password = "mypassword";
String compId = (String)JSFUtils.getFromSession("compId");
String docId = (String)JSFUtils.getFromSession("docId");
Number noDokumen = (Number)JSFUtils.getFromSession("noDokumen");
String status = (String)JSFUtils.getFromSession("status");
System.out.println("from rptInvoice.jsp " compIddocId + " " + noDokumen.toString()+status);
try
//Open report.
ReportClientDocument reportClientDoc = new ReportClientDocument();
reportClientDoc.open(reportName, 0);
     session.setAttribute("reportSource", reportClientDoc.getReportSource());
// Conn info
ConnectionInfos oConnectionInfos = new ConnectionInfos();
ConnectionInfo oConnectionInfo = new ConnectionInfo();
oConnectionInfo.setUserName(userName); //Set username and password for the report's database
oConnectionInfo.setPassword(password);
oConnectionInfos.add(oConnectionInfo); //Add object to collection
//Create a Fields collection object to store the parameter fields in.
Fields oFields = new Fields();
// THE PARAMETERs.
//Integer numberValue = new Integer(2166);
//String stringValue = "IV";
//Set all of the parameter values using the utility function.
setDiscreteParameterValue(oFields, "Nomor_Invoice", "", new Integer(noDokumen.intValue()));
setDiscreteParameterValue(oFields, "Kode_Invoice", "", docId);
setDiscreteParameterValue(oFields, "Compid", "", compId);
setDiscreteParameterValue(oFields, "Status", "", status);
//System.out.println("from view-controller report jsp v2.2");
//Set the export options to export to the format of choice.
ExportOptions oExportOptions = new ExportOptions();
oExportOptions.setExportFormatType(ReportExportFormat.PDF);
ReportExportControl oReportExportControl = new ReportExportControl();
oReportExportControl.setExportOptions(oExportOptions);
oReportExportControl.setExportAsAttachment(false);
Object reportSource = session.getAttribute("reportSource");
oReportExportControl.setReportSource(reportSource);
oReportExportControl.setDatabaseLogonInfos(oConnectionInfos);
     oReportExportControl.setParameterFields(oFields);
//Export the report
oReportExportControl.processHttpRequest(
request, response, getServletConfig().getServletContext(), null);
catch(ReportSDKException e)
out.print(e);
%>
<%!
* Utility function to set values for the discrete parameters in the report. The report parameter value is set
* and added to the Fields collection, which can then be passed to the viewer so that the user is not prompted
* for parameter values.
private void setDiscreteParameterValue(Fields oFields, String paramName, String reportName, Object value) {     
//Create a ParameterField object for each field that you wish to set.
ParameterField oParameterField = new ParameterField();
//You must set the report name.
//Set the report name to an empty string if your report does not contain a
//subreport; otherwise, the report name will be the name of the subreport
oParameterField.setReportName(reportName);
//Create a Values object and a ParameterFieldDiscreteValue object for each
//object for each parameter field you wish to set.
//If a ranged value is being set, a ParameterFieldRangeValue object should
//be used instead of the discrete value object.
Values oValues = new Values();
ParameterFieldDiscreteValue oParameterFieldDiscreteValue = new ParameterFieldDiscreteValue();
//Set the name of the parameter. This must match the name of the parameter as defined in the
//report.
oParameterField.setName(paramName);
oParameterFieldDiscreteValue.setValue(value);
//Add the parameter field values to the Values collection object.
oValues.add(oParameterFieldDiscreteValue);
//Set the current Values collection for each parameter field.
oParameterField.setCurrentValues(oValues);
//Add parameter field to the Fields collection. This object is then passed to the
//viewer as the collection of parameter fields values set.
oFields.add(oParameterField);
%>
10. have a try and HTH :)
xtanto.