I have downloaded and installed the iReport 4.5 using te Windows installer. But when I try to start the iReport it shows the splash screen but does not start.
My JRE version is 8.
Answer
There's another way if you don't want to have older Java versions installed you can do the following:
1) Download the iReport-5.6.0.zip from https://sourceforge.net/projects/ireport/files/iReport/iReport-5.6.0/
2) Download jre-7u67-windows-x64.tar.gz (the one packed in a tar) from https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-archive-downloads-javase7-521261.html
3) Extract the iReport and in the extracted folder that contains the bin and etc folders throw in the jre. For example if you unpack twice the jre-7u67-windows-x64.tar.gz you end up with a folder named jre1.7.0_67. Put that folder in the iReport-5.6.0 directory:
and then go into the etc folder and edit the file ireport.conf and add the following line into it:
For Windows jdkhome=".\jre1.7.0_67"
For Linux jdkhome="./jre1.7.0_67"
Note : jre version may change! according to your download of 1.7
now if you run the ireport_w.exe from the bin folder in the iReport directory it should load just fine.