iReport not starting using JRE 8

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. … Read more