Getting started

To help you start using the Design API, here is a simple example which shows how to use the JReport Design API package to compile and run a Java class that returns the connection information from a catalog file.

  1. Compile the sample code TellMeConnection.java in <install_root>\help\samples\APICatalog.

    javac -classpath <install_root>\lib\JREngine.jar;<install_root>\lib\sac.jar;<install_root>\lib\report.jar TellMeConnection.java

  2. Set the license key for Design API using the method dr.setUserInfo("UID","XXXXXXXXXXX") in TellMeConnection.java.
  3. Run the sample code. 
    java -classpath ".;<install_root>\lib\JREngine.jar;<install_root>\lib\report.jar;
<install_root>\lib\sac.jar;<install_root>\lib\log4j-1.2.8.jar"
-Dreporthome=<install_root> TellMeConnection <catalog path> <catalog name>

    For example,

    java -classpath "c:\JReport\Designer\lib\JREngine.jar;c:\JReport\Designer\lib\report.jar;
c:\JReport\Designer\lib\sac.jar;c:\JReport\Designer\lib\log4j-1.2.8.jar;
C:\JReport\Designer\lib\hsqldb.jar"-Dreporthome=D:\JReport\Designer 
TellMeConnection -path=C:\JReport\Designer\Demo\Reports\TutorialReports
-catalog=JinfonetGourmetJava.cat

    And the output should be as follows:

    Name: Jinfonet demo
    Driver: org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
    URL: jdbc:hsqldb:c:\JReport\Designer\Demo\db\DemoDB
    User: sa
    Password
    TimestampFormat yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS
    TimeFormat HH:mm:ss
    DateFormat yyyy-MM-dd
    ExtraNamePattern Default(JDBC)