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JDBC 4.0 and Oracle JDeveloper for J2EE Development

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JDBC 4.0 and Oracle JDeveloper for J2EE Development

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
JDBC 4.0 and Oracle JDeveloper for J2EE Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Configuring the JasperReports Configuration File


A JasperReports report design is specified in a XML configuration file. In this section, the XML configuration file, catalog.xml, is configured for a PDF report. A JasperReports configuration file is an XML file based on the jasperreport.dtd DTD. The root element of the configuration file is jasperReport. Some of the other elements (with commonly used sub elements and attributes) in a JasperReports XML file are listed in following table:

XML Element

Description

Sub Elements

Attributes

jasperReport

Root Element

reportFont, parameter, queryString, field, variable, group, title, pageHeader, columnHeader, detail, columnFooter, pageFooter.

name, columnCount, pageWidth, pageHeight, orientation, columnWidth, columnSpacing, leftMargin, rightMargin, topMargin, bottomMargin.

reportFont

Report level font definitions.

Report level font definitions.

name, isDefault, fontName,size, isBold, isItalic, isUnderline, isStrikeThrough, pdfFontName...