Hey
So I'm pretty new to JasperReports and iReport, but I've made a report (in iReport) that fetches data from my MySQL
database. However, the problem I'm facing is this:
My MySQL database contains customer numbers, which I don't want to display in my report, but instead I want to display
customer names. Problem is, the names are in an MDB-file (which I have access to by using DSN and JDBC-ODBC), so
how do I access them and fetch the names instead of the number? Both databases contain the customer number for
reference.Is there any way I could use the template report from iReport in
Java and do some logic to replace the numbers
with the names?
Edit: I figured out how to resolve my problem. In case anyone is interested, here's how I did it:
Instead of letting JasperReports handle the database connection and all that, I made a new class which implements the
JRDataSource methods for filling a report. Then I just filled the Object[][] with data from my database class. Basically, I
only used iReport to design the report and generate a .jasper-file.
Here's how to implement it!
