Deploying BIRT Report Engine API with Jakarta Struts
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After reading the great article Deploying BIRT from Jason Weathersby I decide to create a little example on how to use BIRT RE API with Jakarta Struts framework.
To do so I've followed Jason steps:
Create a WebReport/WEB-INF/lib directory underneath the Tomcat webapps directory.
Copy all the jars in the birt-runtime-2_1_0/ReportEngine/lib directory from the Report Engine download into your WebReport/WEB-INF/lib directory.
Next, create a directory named platform in your WEB-INF folder.
Copy the birt-runtime-2_1_0/Report Engine/plugins and birt-runtime-2_1_0/ReportEngine/configuration directories to the platform directory you just created. In this example the context is WebReport, so the folder structure is /webapps/WebReport/platform/plugins and webapps/WebReport/platform/configuration.
Additionally, create directories below WebReport for ...