Crystal Reports for Rational Application Developer Designer Guide

To connect to a Derby data source

  1. In the "Data Source Explorer", right-click "Databases" and click New.
    The "New Connection Profile" dialog box appears.
  2. Select Derby and click Next.
  3. Type a name for your connection and click Next.
    The "Derby Embedded Database" dialog box appears.
  4. In the "Select a driver from the drop-down" section, click the browse [...] button.
    The "Driver Definitions" dialog box appears.
  5. Search for the version of Derby that you have installed and click Add.
    The "New Driver Definition" dialog box appears.
  6. Select the Derby Embedded JDBC Driver and click OK.
    The "Edit Driver Definition" dialog box appears.
  7. Remove the default derby.jar file.
  8. Click the Add Jar/Zip button.
  9. Browse to the \lib\ folder where you installed the Derby files and select the derby.jar file.
  10. In the "Properties", modify the following properties:
  11. Click OK.
  12. In the "Driver Definitions" dialog box, select the Derby Embedded JDBC Driver and click OK.
  13. In the "Derby Embedded Database" dialog box, ensure the database location looks like the following value: 
    jar:(<full path to Xtreme.jar file>)Xtreme
  14. Click test connection to verify the connection.
  15. Click Finish.
  16. In the "Databases" list, right-click the connection that you created and select Connect.
    The connection will expand and show you the database node. Click to expand the following nodes:
      a. your database
      b. Schemas
      c. APP
      d. Tables
  17. To add tables to the report, you can drag the tables to the "Field Explorer" view or to the report.


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