Crystal Reports for Eclipse: Where to start?

What is Crystal Reports for Eclipse?

Crystal Reports for Eclipse is an Eclipse plug-in that integrates Crystal reports into Eclipse IDE. It makes it easy to develop and access Crystal Reports in your Eclipse projects.

According to the Crystal Reports for Eclipse Developer Guide, the plugin adds the following features to Eclipse:

• An embedded report designer for creating Crystal reports.
• Crystal reports viewers for viewing reports in Java applications and over the web.
• SDKs to programmatically modify reports.
• Java runtime libraries that implement reporting functionality.
• Eclipse integration features, including project wizards, views, and perspectives for reporting.
• A set of sample reports, sample database connections, and helper code.

Know How material

This section acts as an indexer for referencing pages which describe how to install and work with "Crystal Reports for Eclipse". It also contains links to very good demos, webinars and articles that can be of great help for beginners to find their first steps while using this tool.

SAP Crystal Reports, version for Eclipse
This is the official Home Page for "Crystal Reports for Eclipse" on the SAP Community Network.
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/crystalreports-java

Crystal Reports for Eclipse e-Book
The Crystal Reports for Eclipse e-Book contains articles, videos, and information on how to create reports and embed them in custom java applications.
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Crystal+Reports+for+Eclipse

Crystal Reports for Eclipse 2.0 demos
This page contains QuickStart demos that cover the topics of creating Crystal Reports projects, designing reports and adding them to the projects, configuring different types of datasources inside the reports, and finally viewing the report inside a sample Java application or a sample JSP page hosted in a web application.
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/crystalreports-java?rid=/webcontent/uuid/30e3a9b4-a7d3-2b10-678a-9ed48f648365

Crystal Reports Java SDK Samples
This page contains a set of code samples that cover a variety of topics, e.g. General, Viewing, Database, Exporting/Printing, Parameters and Report Modification
https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Crystal+Reports+Java++SDK+Samples

Crystal Reports for Eclipse 2.0 - Sample Codes Package
This page contains a bundle of 12 sample codes for Crystal Reports for Eclipse 2.0. The package covers the topics "Web Application Viewing and Exporting", "Report Creation/Modification" and "Designer Extension Points".
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/13120

Crystal Reports for Java/Eclipse Articles
This page contains some good articles about Crystal Reports for Eclipse.
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/index?rid=/webcontent/uuid/e038f87e-f576-2b10-1e92-baf4baf5f6f5