Re: jpg files, Java, Oracle and Crystal Reports

I developed an application that used about a half million TIFF's, they could have just as easily been JPG's, but TIFF's are lossless and JPG's are not.
Basically we created a naming convention for the files that uniquely identified each and then segregated them into folders according to year and vendor.
I stored the names in a SQL Table appropriately indexed and then we used the TIFF's in the application for printing and client display.
It worked out very good, the SQL lookup was very fast, and leaving the files in the physical JPG format allowed us to cache them locally and have very litte code change for cache or server access. The application was all done in pure Java using JAI for TIFF access and the client was delighted with the speeds we achieved for document access, including scaling and printing.

If you look at the statement of direction for BI tools from Oracle, you will notice that Oracle has made BI Publisher as their core "reporting" tool for pixel-perfect reporting. All thousands of Oracle Reports which are part of Oracle E-Business Suite have been or are being converted to BI Publisher. I personally don't have much exposure to BIP but I would recommend checking in the BIP forums which are very active. The report development paradigm is very different between Reports and BIP so traditional reports developers have a long learning curve with BIP. With the next release of OBIEE 11g coming out in July, there is hope that Oracle will provide a better layout editor for BIP.
I would suggest putting in some time/effort/training into BIP rather than Oracle Reports since reports is essentially on life-support.

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TC

Hi TC,
I don't recall seeing this type. Best to try and see if you see that field type and if so CR detects as a string or not. Typically if we don't recognize the type it gets labeled as a string.
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Don

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