How to use Crystal Report with Java - need help

Question

Dear everyone,
i am completely new to Crystal report , please can anyone help me to creat a very simple Report using the Crystal report,
the report will show some records from oracle DB.
How can i make it by a simple example and with code please?
do i need any JAR or Bean for Crystal report?
thanks for your help and please don't hesitate to contact me in case of any inquiries.
my email: [email protected]
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I what to use Crystal report to generate report.My programe in java swing .Iam retrive table from database in Jtable .But when giving print
command its print half screen .so that why I wantto usecrystal report
package file2;
import file2.choice;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;
import com.sun.java.swing.*;
import javax.swing.JTable;
public class cour extends JFrame implements Printable
     //Menu fileMenu;
     public static void main(String[] a)
cour n = new cour();
n.setVisible(true);
public cour()
     super("Course Report");
     report();
     protected void report()
          JPanel panel = new JPanel();
     JButton printButton = new JButton("Print");
     panel.add(printButton);
     JButton exitButton = new JButton("Exit");
     panel.add(exitButton);     
     DefaultTableModel defaulttablemodel = new DefaultTableModel();
          JTable jtable = new JTable(defaulttablemodel);
          panel.add(new JScrollPane(jtable));
          String      tempname="";
          int tempcnt;
          String driver="sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver";
          String url="jdbc:odbc:regs";
          Object[] data = new Object[4];
          try
                         Class.forName(driver);                         
                         Connection connection=DriverManager.getConnection(url,"sa","");
                         Statement statement = connection.createStatement();     
                         String query = "SELECT courseid as CourseID,coursen as CourseName,cfee as Fee,coursed as Duration FROM course";
                         ResultSet rs = statement.executeQuery(query);     
                         ResultSetMetaData rmeta = rs.getMetaData();
                         int numColumns=rmeta.getColumnCount();                         
                         for(int i=1;i<=numColumns;i++)
                              if(i<=numColumns)
                                   defaulttablemodel.addColumn(rmeta.getColumnName(i));
                         while(rs.next())
                              for(int i=1;i<=numColumns;++i)
                                   if( i<=numColumns)
                                        tempname = rs.getString(i);
                                        tempcnt=i-1;
                                        data[tempcnt] = tempname;          
                              defaulttablemodel.addRow(data);                              
               catch(Exception ex)
          printButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
          /*if(ae.getActionCommand().equals("Print"))
          PrinterJob pj = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
          pj.setPrintable(cour.this);
          if (pj.printDialog())
          try
          pj.print();
          catch (PrinterException pe)
          System.out.println(pe);
exitButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
          choice ch=new choice();
               setVisible(false);
               ch.setVisible(true);
setContentPane(panel);
     setSize(1040,780);
/*Dimension screenSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
Dimension frameSize = getSize();
int x = (screenSize.width - frameSize.width) / 2;
int y = (screenSize.height - frameSize.height) / 2;
setLocation(x, y);*/
addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
dispose();
System.exit(0);
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int pageIndex)
if (pageIndex != 0) return NO_SUCH_PAGE;
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
g2.translate(pf.getImageableX(), pf.getImageableY());
getContentPane().paint(g2);
return PAGE_EXISTS;
}