This section provides a brief summary of the new features and enhancements that are offered with the Java Reporting Component XI Release 2 SDK.
The following new features have been added to the Java Reporting Component:
The Java Reporting Component now supports dynamic graphic location. Dynamic graphic location allows pictures and graphics in a report to be represented by a link stored in a database.
This new feature supports the common practice of storing images on a web server and storing references to those images in a database.
A new set of XML tags have been added to the schema in the CRConfig.xml configuration file to support data source configuration information for use with the Java Reporting Component. With these new tags it is possible to set data source configuration information, without a JNDI server or web container.
Note: For more information about the tags within CRConfig.xml, see CRConfig.xml Tag Reference.
The Java Reporting Component now supports exporting to following new formats:
For a list of the export formats supported by the Java Reporting Component, see Export formats.
The Java Reporting Component features improved report processing, decreasing the amount of time it takes to view a report with images.
The Java Reporting Component now supports the interpretation and display of RTF encoded data, inserted as either string fields or memo fields within a report.
A series of functionality that was only available client
The following functionality is now available server
New to the Java Reporting Component is a thick
A sample application, and API, are provided to demonstrate how to convert a collection of Plain Old Java Objects (POJO) into a datasource usable by Crystal Reports and the Java Reporting Component.
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