The Crystal Report Viewer Java Bean

The Crystal Report Viewer Java Bean (or Report Viewer Bean) can be added to an application in any development environment that supports Java (version 1.1). Programmers receive the benefit of quickly adding a powerful report viewer to an application with little coding.

As a standard component, the Crystal Report Viewer Java Bean exposes several properties at design time, but also provides a complete object model with properties, methods, and events that can be programmed at runtime. The following discusses one approach to creating an application using the Crystal Report Viewer Java Bean. It describes the creation of a simple Applet which will allow a report to be viewed from your browser.

This example uses the Bean Box a component of the Bean Developer Kit (BDK) from Sun Microsystems Inc. The Bean Box is not intended to be used for serious application development, rather as a platform for testing Beans interactively at design time, and creating simple applets for run time testing. The Bean Box is available for download from Sun Microsystems.



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