Birt viewer does not work on WAS6.1

I have tried installing the Birt Viewer on WAS6.1 many times. Searches through Google reveal a lot of people with the same problem. Can anyone tell me how to get WAS6.1 to work with Birt 2.3 or 2.2? We need this for work as we are evaluating Birt for our enterprise. There is no documentation for this.

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NoBirt

In my research, I found numerous people with this issue so I am posting a complete response to this problem.

Problem: Birt and WAS6.1 integration

Solution: Birt 2.2 does indeed work with WAS6.1. All you have to do is create an ear project, add birt.war to it as a web project and deploy the EAR file to WAS 6.1. Set the classloader policies as mentioned on birt exchange which is parent last. We tried it several days without luck and thought it did not work. However, you can test this out by creating a new instance of WAS6.1 with nothing but the BIRT ear on it. It works. Turns out that our other applications loaded onto the same instance of WAS6.1 along with BIRT are creating problems for BIRT. But it is not BIRT's fault. Now we are looking at our other apps and seeing which duplicate jars are creating the problem/

If you follow this solution, it will work. Good luck.

mwilliams

The following document from IBM may also help with integrating BIRT-viewer with WAS6.1.<br />
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<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21296330&aid=1'>http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21296330&aid=1</a>

NoBirt

Ok. So we have figured out what the offending file is for our purposes. We are using web services for another project deployed on the same instance of the WAS 6.1 server so we had duplicate copies of Saaj.jar. Getting rid of this file from the birt.war file solved all our problems. Now, we are able to run birt along with all our other apps on the same instance. So try getting rid of saaj.jar if you are using web service related projects on the same instance. Good luck.