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I just went through the same exercise because I needed barcodes and I needed them now. I ended up going with Barcode4J. The implementation in JR/iR was pretty straightforward, however it took some playing with the settings to get barcodes that weren't fuzzy and would scale nicely when resized in iR.

I am developing a custom JRDataSourceProvider / JRDataSource to use in iReport a JDBC resource that has insufficient support for stored procedures. The problem I am struggling with is accessing the report's parameters. The JRDataSource needs to know them in order to run the SQL query, but all I get is the JasperReport passed as parameter to JRDataSourceProvider.create. How do I do that? And if I can't do it, what other approach could I use to wrap this JDBC resource so that I can use it in iReport? FYI - I have already been using this JDBC resource successfully in Java + JasperReports by first loading data in an ArrayList<HashMap>, but I would like to make it available in iReport for others to use as well.

I tried to install the NetBeans Plugin (3.1.3) in NB 6.5, but the plugin installation gave this error message: "The Plugin Installer found problem timeout of loading ireport-designer [com.jaspersoft.ireport/1.0] while install the following plugins: ireport-designer". I tried re-downloading the file from SourceForge, but the new download had the same MD5 hash and gave the same error. Any clue?

ISSUE RESOLVED - See edit to first post in thread. Post Edited by Luca at 11/27/08 15:54

Well now iReport 3.0.0 is also broken.... :-( I uninstalled, re-downloaded and re-installed both 3.1.2 standalone and 3.0.0. When I run 3.1.2, something as simple as New Empty Report > Browse makes the java.exe process shoot up to 50% and stay there for several minutes before I get a response. Changing folders within Browse has the same effect. Once I open a report, dropping an image element onto the canvas has the same effect, but dropping a text field is fine. When I run 3.0.0, File > Open has the same effect... javaw.exe shoots up to 50%, and the app become unresponsive for a few minutes... changing folders has the same effect... No problems dropping elements onto the canvas, but saving is a no-go. As reported above in my prior message, NB 6.5 and other Java apps work just fine, so this is caused by something iReport-specific. I run WinXPPro.

I downloaded iReport 3.1.2 standalone, and it freezes whenever I try to do virtuallt anything - even New Report > Browse... I downloaded the NB plugin but it broke NB's JSF visual web designer, and that's a no-go for me. The designer started working again once I unistalled the plugin. NB 6.5 by itself works just fine for me. Happy to help debugging/fixing these problems. UPDATE: ***RESOLVED*** I uninstalled the JDK (1.6.0_03) and installed the current version (1.6.0_10). Now both 3.1.2 and 3.0.0 seem to work fine. Why everything else (including NetBeans) would work fine and just the two versions of iReport wouldn't remains a mystery... Post Edited by Luca at 11/27/08 15:53