Are barcodes supported in Oracle Reports?
There are multiple ways of generating barcodes with Oracle Reports. An easy way is to leverage a JavaBean that creates barcode images for a given string. You can use the Java Importer to create wrapper packages, if you want to use the bean in your paper layout, or use the regular useBean functionality of JavaServer Pages to use the bean in your Web source. See the relevant chapter of Oracle Reports Building Reports for an example of using a sample JavaBean to generate barcode in both paper and Web layouts. Alternatively, you can use a formula column that generates the barcode string, and then uses a barcode font to display the correct barcode. The problem here is that you, as the developer, have to create the correct algorithms to generate the barcode string (checksums, control characters, and so on). Oracle Reports also provides the functionality of PDF font embedding to allow you to embed the specific barcode font directly into the PDF document so the client does not have to have the
