Use of Crystal Reports

Ok Now this may seem to be a little stupid but heres my problem:
I need to integrate a Crystal Report in my Java Application and I have no idea what so ever how to do it. Here's the case:
I have a Form in my application that receives various details about an employee and these are to be printed witht the crystal report. what i m doing here is to feed these values in the database table, and then pass a simple query to access these in my report but the problem is "HOW TO SHOW THIS REPORT IN JFRAME OF MY APPLICATION"
any help will be highly appreciated!!!

I'd hate to look like advertising for a product, especially a product that I have never used myself, but there exists a "Crystal report dor Eclipse", that is supposed to provide an "SDK that enables report creation and modification with Java code". Have you evaluated that?
If this doesn't fit, well, you have to consider that we (most of us at least) are not users of Crystal Reports, so you'd better give us more info about what does CR generate. It is easy to display an image in Swing, as mentioned below, it is also relatively easy to display an HTML document, it's reasonably easy to display a PDF report. The techniques will vary, so do the study about what output can be generated and come back with a more precise question.
Eventually, you should consider your requirement: "these are to be printed witht the crystal report" can be interpreted in a number of ways (one of them being: "From the Java app, run "CrystalReport in interactive mode" command line, the user will just have to click on the "print" icon).

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We looking forward to hearing from you
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Hello Son,
please use this code below to get a list of used database fields in a report :
//File Name:          CS_Get_report_data_out_inproc.sln
//Created:            April 11, 2008
//Author ID:          FLI
//Purpose:            This C# .NET sample Windows application demonstrates
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//                  using unmanaged RAS.
// Note this is available without a dedicated RAS with SP2 for XI R2
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
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Hi Thomas,
Are you having Xcelsius also in your kitty??(for dynamically doing this activity)
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One PeopleSoft user requested that we delete 118 Queries.
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Why? How would the user know, or even care, if the queries exist?
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