Conflicts with CFReport tag and custom JasperReports feature within our application

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:19:04 GMT

My company's application was previously on ColdFusion 6.1 and working fine. We built a reporting feature using JasperReports to generate reports (which were created with iReport) which also allowed the ability to export in PDF (iText) or Excel (Apache POI) and included the use of Barcodes (IDAutomation). All of this was done either in ColdFusion CFC/CFM files or with Java JAR/class files.

We were able to upgrade our system to the latest ColdFusion 8. Everything is working fine and so far we don't have any problems. That is until we decided to use ColdFusion Report Builder and the CFReport tag. After pounding our heads against the wall we have figured out that we can use one or the other but not both. If we use our JasperReport feature, any CFReport that is run, gives an error. We have tried using a different application scope but that doesn't seem to do anything. If we instead generate a CFReport first, then our custom JasperReports code is unable to compile any new templates. However we have noticed in this scenario that it is still able to generate a report if the template is already compiled (.jasper file instead of a .jrxml).

After some research on the web I've come across Java Proxy (can even see a JavaProxy called in the ColdFusion error dump). I believe that since the classes have the same name (net.sf.jasperreports.engine.*) different JARs are being used and loaded depending which is ran first (our custom jasperreports or cfreports).

What I'm needing is some help hopefully figuring out a way to get them both to peacefully coexist. Or at the very least some insight as to what is happening in hope I can understand it and figure out a solution.

Our application uses the following JARs:

jasperreports-1.2.6.jar
poi-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar (ability to write out in Excel file format)
iText-1.3.5.jar (ability to write out in PDF file format)
barbecue-1.1.jar (barcode used in iReport but can't create valid 2D barcodes)
iReport-1.2.6.jar (has façade/facade class that allows iReport to generate barcodes using barbecue)
IDAutomation-PDF417-4.10.jar (new 2D barcode meant to replace barbecue)
IDAutomation-Linear-4.10.jar (new 1D barcode meant to replace barbecue)

CF 8.0.1 RDS not working

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:40:18 GMT

I had CFMX 6.1 installed. I uninstalled it and then installed CF 8.0.1. I was able to add all my settings and get my application up and running.

I then installed the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (Europa), installed the CF8 Help JAR, CF801-Extensions-for-Eclipse.zip and CFEclipse. So far everything is working. However I can't get the debugging and RDS working.

On ColdFusion:

* RDS was enabled when I installed (even checked the web.xml file and the settings are there and uncommented)
* Left the debugger port to the default of 5005

In Eclipse:

* I go to the RDS settings in the Window > Preferences and choose "Test Connection" it gives me an error saying it's unable to connect.

I then open my browser (with ColdFusion running on my computer) and type in 127.0.0.1:8500 and the browser states it is unable to connect.

Help?

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Conflicts with CFReport tag and custom JasperReports feature within our application

CF 8.0.1 RDS not working