INTRODUCTION

The product you downloaded contains:

- RReport Visual Builder (com.java4less.rreportVB) is a Java/Swing application to design report.
- RReport is 100% Java library (com.java4less.rreport) to print reports.

In order to run RReport Visual Designer you must.

- execute RUNSUN.BAT for Sun's java machine
- execute RUNMS.BAT (for microsoft Java machine)


DOCUMENTATION

- RReport Documentation: RReport_Help.html
- RReport Visual Builder documentation: RReportVB_Help.html
- RReport Java API: javadoc subdirectory.

EXAMPLES

- examples/JdbcSource/DBOrder.rep : this file can be imported into RReport Visual Builder. It requires a ODBC Data Source called RReport that points to the file RReport2.mdb.
- examples/ArraySource/Order.rep : this file can be imported into RReport Visual Builder. This version does not use a database.
- examples/JdbcSource/exampleDBOrder: shows how to print DBOrder.rep. You can run it with runExampleDBOrder.bat.
- examples/ArraySource/exampleOrder: shows how to print Order.rep using an array as data source. You can run it with runExampleOrder.bat.
- examples/PrintByProgram/exampleOrder2: shows how to programatically print Order.rep. You can run it with runExampleOrder2.bat.
- examples/JavaAPI/app.java: includes several examples of the com.java4less.rreport package. These are programatically examples that DO NOT USE the Visual Builder.
- examples/Chart/exampleChart: Report with chart
- examples/PDF_DHTML/examplePDFOrder: Example of PDF and DHTML report.


JAVA PACKAGES

the products contains the following java packages:
- RReport.zip: RReport runtime classes.
- RReportVB.zip: RReport Visual Builder Classes
- rchart.jar: evaluation version of RChart.
- rbarcode.zip: evaluation version of RBarcode.


ADDITIONAL LIBRARIES

1. In order to run RREPORT VISUAL DESIGNER you must install Swing in your computer. If You still did not do it, you can download it from:

The swing connection: http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/

NOTE 1: RReport (the runtime module) DOES NOT need Swing unless you use the RReportJWindow class.
NOTE 2: if you use jdk 1.3 or later, you don't need to download Swing since it is already included in Java.

2. If you want to export your report to PDF you must download iText: http://www.lowagie.com/iText/
3. If you want to export to DHTML and create PNG files you must download the encoder: http://users.boone.net/wbrameld/pngencoder/ 
4. If you want to export to DHTML and create GIF files you must download the encoder: http://www.acme.com/resources/classes/Acme.tar.gz 



