JRC - usage in JAVA Application

Question

Hi,
I'am planning to use Crystal's JRC api in my standalone Java Application. All the samples in Business Objects site point me to JSPs,Servlets or EJBs. Could anyone point me to sample stand alone Java Applications that uses JRC API
regards
Krishna

Answer 1

Hello,
I have never used this stuff before so I don't knwo if what you want to do is even possible but maybe something along these lines might help get you started:
import com.crystaldecisions.report.web.viewer.CrystalReportViewer;
import com.crystaldecisions.reports.reportengineinterface.JPEReportSourceFactory;
import com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.reportsource.IReportSourceFactory2;
import com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.reportsource.IReportSource;
import java.io.*;
public class JRCTest {
public static void main() {
String path = "test.rpt";
IReportSourceFactory2 rsf = new JPEReportSourceFactory();
IReportSource rptSource = (IReportSource)rsf.createReportSource(path, request.getLocale());
CrystalReportViewer viewer = new CrystalReportViewer();
viewer.setReportSource(rptSource);
//Is there another method you can use on the viewer class that does not rely on HttpRequest
viewer.processHttpRequest(request, response,getServletConfig().getServletContext(), out);
If you need to use JNDI to locate datasources etc then you need to setup your initial context. Also as commented check the viewer for other output methods.
Hope this helps