Support for BIRT Report Tools

Question

I noted that my BIRT reports wont got embedded in Sun Web Server 6.1.
It gives serverlet exception. They run successfully over Tomcat.
Have anybody tried it before? What may be the alternatives?
-Sameer

Answer 1

Since you didn't give any details as to the version of BIRT you are using or the servlet exception logged in your web server instance's logs/errors file, the following may not address your problem.
After deploying BIRT 2.1.1's WebViewerExample on Web Server 6.1, I was able to successfully access the index page of the web application(http://server/birt-viewer). However, when I clicked on the link labeled "View Example" the server returned a 500 Error page and the following exception was logged:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory
        at org.apache.axis.components.logger.LogFactory.class$(LogFactory.java:45)
        at org.apache.axis.components.logger.LogFactory$1.run(LogFactory.java:45)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)It appears that BIRT has a dependency on Apache's commons-logging classes. I downloaded commons-logging-1.1.jar from http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_commons-logging.cgi and installed it in the WebViewerExample web application (i.e. under birt-runtime-2_1_1/WebViewerExample/WEB-INF/lib). After reconfiguring/restarting my web server (reconfig/restart) I was able to successfully view the example report.
If this isn't the same as what you are seeing, then please provide more details.