Starting Instant Report

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Starting Instant Report on All Platforms

To run the Instant Report on any platform, do whatever you normally do to run a Java jar archive. If this is your first time, follow these steps:
First make sure you have the Java Development platform J2SE (downloadable from http://java.sun.com/ for free) that comes with the java loaders (java.exe/javaw.exe) to launch Instant Report and java compiler (javac.exe) to compile your report designs. Instant Report 1.4 requires a Java runtime environment having a release version of 1.3 or greater. It will NOT run on versions 1.1 or 1.2.
Also make sure that the directory containing java.exe or javaw.exe is found in the value of your PATH environment variable so that you can invoke java from any directory. If you installed the Java correctly, it should take care of that. Then open a terminal or command interpreter window. Change the current directory to the directory in which you have stored the ireport-x.x.jar file. Run this command: [full path to java application launcher java.exe] -jar ireport-x.x.jar. x.x is the version number. Instant Report starts running.

Starting Instant Report on Windows

On Windows, the JDK comes with javaw.exe launcher that gives you the option of starting applications simply by double-clicking. Open the directory in which you have ireport-x.x.jar and double-click on it. That's all.