So IReport does not work properly with Java 8... and I had to find that out the hard way ;-)
Here I have some tips for those of you who still use IReport (3 to 5)
When running with java 8 IReport3 will not show 'library' window contents - where you usually expect to find 'buttons' like totals, page number, current date etc. and as far as I remember IReport5 will not launch at all.
You can check which java version is used by the IReport if you go Help->About->System Properties. There you can find 'java.version' variable.
So for ireport3 the workaround is to use ireport.bat file which is located in the ireport3 root directory.
Just add to the bat file something like path="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_26"
so that proper java will be used to launch IReport.
For irepor 5 you can edit ireport.conf file (e.g. iReport-5.6.0\etc\ireport.conf)
and add jdkhome="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_26"
Note that you should have java6 jdk also installed on your system for the above to work.
That's it for today...
Here I have some tips for those of you who still use IReport (3 to 5)
When running with java 8 IReport3 will not show 'library' window contents - where you usually expect to find 'buttons' like totals, page number, current date etc. and as far as I remember IReport5 will not launch at all.
You can check which java version is used by the IReport if you go Help->About->System Properties. There you can find 'java.version' variable.
So for ireport3 the workaround is to use ireport.bat file which is located in the ireport3 root directory.
Just add to the bat file something like path="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_26"
so that proper java will be used to launch IReport.
For irepor 5 you can edit ireport.conf file (e.g. iReport-5.6.0\etc\ireport.conf)
and add jdkhome="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_26"
Note that you should have java6 jdk also installed on your system for the above to work.
That's it for today...
