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Saturday March 25, 2006

BIRT and GlassFish b41 The BIRT project includes a web application for displaying reports. After some fits and starts, folks have been able to get it working on GlassFish. While folks were able to get it working, I did not like the "solution". I spent a bit of time with BIRT 2.0.1 and build 41 to see if I could get a better solution.

I have been able to deploy 2.0.1 on GlassFish build 41, by following the instructions for JBoss, with a couple small changes:

• I used the asadmin deploydir command, instead of copying files to a deploy directory. GlassFish has an autodeploy directory, but it expects archives to be placed there, not "exploded" archives.
• I did not need to copy the files from Axis 1.2.1, listed in the instructions. It looks like the files are already there in the 2.0.1 release.
• I created a <BIRT-ROOT>/WEB-INF/sun-web.xml file. It looked like this:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <!DOCTYPE sun-web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Application Server 9.0 Servlet 2.5//EN" "http://www.sun.com/software/appserver/dtds/sun-web-app_2_5-0.dtd">
  <sun-web-app error-url="">
    <context-root>/birt-viewer</context-root>
    <class-loader delegate="false"/>
    <jsp-config>
      <property name="classdebuginfo" value="true">
        <description>Enable debug info compilation in the generated servlet class</description>
      </property>
      <property name="mappedfile" value="true">
        <description>Maintain a one-to-one correspondence between static content and the generated servlet class' java code</description>
      </property>
    </jsp-config>
  </sun-web-app>
  

• I did need to copy commons-logging-1.0.4.jar from Axis 1.2.1, into <BIRT-ROOT>/WEB-INF/lib.
• I had to copy the derby.jar from <BIRT-ROOT>/plugins/org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.jdbc to <BIRT-ROOT>/WEB-INF/lib

After doing this, I was able to view the "installation report" and the "more complex report". (2006-03-25 17:06:21.0) Permalink Comments [4]