How to integrate JasperViewer with Swing based application

Question

can I integrate the JasperReports Viewer to my Swing application as like if I click on view report button from my application then viewer should be opened. If so could you advis

Answer 1

Let's suppose that report contains the name of your report file (*.jrxml). This program will fill the report with data from the mysql database. I hope this solves your problem.

public void generate(String report) { // report will contain the name of your file
    try {
        InputStream design = getClass().getResourceAsStream(report);
        JasperDesign jasperdesing = JRXmlLoader.load(design);
        JasperReport jasperReport = JasperCompileManager.compileReport(jasperdesing);
        Connection con = ConnectDB.connect();// connect function in ConnectDB calss is used to connect to the database
        JasperPrint jasperPrint = JasperFillManager.fillReport(jasperReport, null, con);
        JasperViewer.viewReport(jasperPrint, false);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Exception " + e);
    }

}
public class ConnectDB {
public static Connection con = null;
public static Connection connect(){
    try{
        Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
        con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql:///dbname","username","password");
    }catch(Exception e){
        System.out.println();
    }
    return con;
}

}

Answer 2

Yes you can, Jasper Reports come with a usable (albeit simple) report viewer:

...
           JasperReport jasperReport = JasperCompileManager.compileReport(jasperDesign);
           JasperPrint jasperPrint = JasperFillManager.fillReport(jasperReport...);
           JasperViewer.viewReport(jasperPrint);
...

The last line is what displays the viewer. I'm not sure if you can restrict the available output formats to PDF, though.