ODA Plugin and Birt Viewer

I am trying do deploy my report within the birt viewer provided with the birt 2.3 runtime but it doesn't recognize my custom ODA plugin.

All works fine within Eclipse 3.4 and the same custom ODA plugin.

Have you any ideas about this problem and how I can debug the plugin load by birt viewer ?

I get this exception :

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: ldap_driver
at org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.oda.util.manifest.ManifestExplorer.getExtensionManifest(ManifestExplorer.java:200)

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rafalg

I have the same problem. I found some information that broken manifest file can mess with custom oda driver. Can someone experienced write small howto for custom oda driver in standalone report viewer?

Regards,
Rafal

rafalg

Ok. I solved this problem.
My custom oda driver was working fine in Eclipse runtime - I was able to preview my reports but birt report viewer at Tomcat throws me the same error exception message.
I've just checked plugins runned with Eclipse runtime and copied all of them into plugins directory in viewer. Here are the steps to check which plugins are needed:
1. Select Run -> Run Configurations , Eclipse Application
2. In Plugins select "Plugins selected below only" in [Launch With] combobox
3. Click on "Add required plugins"
4. Checked plugins copy into plugins directory in birt viewer

I hope my solution will help you as well.

keith_c06

That may work for ODA Plug-ins, but what about plug-ins for the expression builder? Has anyone been able to get a custom expression builder function to work at run time?

I am using a tomcat 5.5 application server and Birt 2.3.1 on CentOS 4

Thanks,

Keith