working with jasperreports.properties

jasperreports gives us numerous properties settings that we can customize at design or compile time and
modify/control the execution of reports.

Jasperreports has his own default settings and it reads it from its jar file jasperreports-x.x.x.jar with the file name default.jasperreports.properties, unless you specify differently. Property file gives us flexibility of changing its execution

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Calling Oracle Stored Procedure in JasperReports

In my previous article I have very briefly explained how  PLSQL has been supported in jasperreports. But it is not that easy when it comes to different databases. Here I will present how we can call stored procedure from jasperreports. For this sample I have used iReport  4.1.2 designer and Oracle database, it is supported in previous versions as well, may be with minor changes.

Well to

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Understand Hashmap Better

table.sample {
border-width: 1px;
border-spacing: 0px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: black;
border-collapse: collapse;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 240);
}
table.sample th {
border-width: 1px;
padding: 1px;
border-style: inset;
border-color: black;
background-color: rgb(250, 240, 230);
-moz-border-radius: 12px 12px 12px 12px;
}
table.sample td {
border-width: 1px;
padding:

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Accessing parent window function from modal window

if you create a modal dialog window and try to access any function from parent window, well its not possible, any browser will not allow you to access parent window functions unless it is a normal window. so the alternate possible solution is as below
modal window can return a value to parent window's calling function, so based on its value you can either change parent window variables or call

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ClassNotFoundException or NoClassDefFoundError.. what the hell is going on...

many a times we face "ClassNotFoundException" or  "NoClassDefFoundError"  and then we wonder what the hell is going on... not able to figure out what went wrong... some times we even see that even though class file or jar was exist in classpath, classloader unable to find it...
first try to understand that  "ClassNotFoundException" is thrown when specified class was not found in classpath by

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