Birt Viewer 2.3 to extend a custom servlet

phillyx

Hi folks,

I am trying to integrate BiRT into my company's current security structure. For this to happen, I essentially need to:

- download what I would need from the BiRT CVS,
- incorporate the packages into my company's project,
- somehow get the main servlet for the "BiRT report viewer" to extend a custom security Servlet class,
- after which it would be built along with my company's source (I will merge company web.xml with viewer's web.xml and also merge their build scripts).

This custom security servlet is, of-course, a child of HTTPServlet. I assume the BiRT viewer's servlet will need to extend HTTPServlet at some point (as all Servlets do).

?- Has anyone done anything similar to this before?
?- What would I need from the CVS? I have checked out BIRT_2_3_0_Release_200806181122 already and deleted anything "test" as seen in various online tutorials on how to build BiRT. However, I can't go any further as some instructions don't click seeing as they all seem to be for version 2.2 and 2.3 is the version I need to use?

I need a point in the right direction on how to integrate this seamlessly. Any ideas would be appreciated and I will be sure to update the thread on whatever works along the way.

thanks

phillyx

Actually the biRT webviewer extends a servlet Object called AxisServlet, which seems to be under an apache license. Not sure if I can toy with that, so I may somehow have to modify my custom security servlet to act as an intermediary between AxisServlet and Web viewer's servlet.