Use Oracle Database with JasperReports
JasperReports natively allows the use of OracleDB as main data source. If you ever wanted to use a more scalable database and professional for your JasperReports installation, here is how.
Step 1: Install JDBC drivers
If you haven’t installed the JDBC driver corresponding to the database server you want to connect, please follow the instructions to install the OracleDB driver.
Step 2: Add new data source
Log in to JasperReports.
Go to “Data Source > New Data Source”.
Select “JDBC Data Source” as the data source type.
Fill in the details of your database (username, password, hostname… etc.).
Step 3: Test the connection
- Click on the “Test Connection” button. If everything was configured correctly, you should see a “Successful connection” message.
Step 4 (Optional): Disable MySQL
If you will not use MySQL as another data source, you can permanently disable it in the stack. This ensures it would not start and consume system resources. In order to do so, execute the commands below:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh stop mysql
$ sudo sed -i '1i exit 0' /opt/bitnami/mysql/scripts/ctl.sh