Issues on Deploying BIRT Report Engine plugins into JBOSS

Issues on Deploying BIRT Report Engine plugins into JBOSS 
 
1. download birt-runtine-2_3_1.zip 
2. unzip birt-runtine-2_3_1.zip 
 
3. rename "WebViewerExample" into "birt.war" 
4. copy "birt.war" into "$JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/" 
 
access it through <a class='bbc_url' href='http://myjbossserver/birt/index.jsp'>http://myjbossserver/birt/index.jsp</a> successfully 
 
Now I have another J2EE application located in "$JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/gui.war" 
 
inside gui.war, there is a jsp file "test.jsp" with the following content 
 
<% 
System.setProperty("BIRT_HOME", "/jboss/server/default/lib/platform"); 
java.lang.String teststr = "MyTest"; 
request.setAttribute( "AppContextKey", teststr ); 
java.lang.String stringObj = "This test my Application Context From the Viewer"; 
request.setAttribute( "AppContextValue", stringObj ); 
 
request.getRequestDispatcher("/servlet/ViewerServlet?__report=AppContext2.rptdesign").include(request, response); 
 
%> 
 
"AppContext2.rptdesign" file is in the same directory as "test.jsp". 
 
When access <a class='bbc_url' href='http://myjbossserver/gui/test.jsp'>http://myjbossserver/gui/test.jsp</a>, got the following error 
 
ViewerServlet not available. 
 
I tried with 
 
request.getRequestDispatcher("/frameset?__report=AppContext2.rptdesign").include(request, response); 
 
or 
 
request.getRequestDispatcher("/run?__report=AppContext2.rptdesign").include(request, response); 
 
got error: 
 
frameset not available or run not available 
 
So I tried another approach which is to merge birt.war into gui.war 
 
Here is what I did 
 
cp -r birt.war/webcontent gui.war/webcontent 
cp birt.war/WEB-INF/* gui.war/WEB-INF/* 
 
manually merged birt.war/WEB-INF/web.xml and gui.war/WEB-INF/web.xml 
 
cp birt.war/WEB-INF/lib/* /jboss/server/default/lib/* 
cp -r birt.war/WEB-INF/platform /jboss/server/default/lib/platform 
 
compile and deploy and access <a class='bbc_url' href='http://myjbossserver/gui/test.jsp'>http://myjbossserver/gui/test.jsp</a> 
 
got the following error. I have searched the internet including birt sites. tried various solutions. None of them worked out. The problem is how to set to make the jboss recogonize where the plugins located. Any pointers are very much appreciated!! 
 
 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,734 ERROR [][STDERR] org.eclipse.birt.core.exception.BirtException: Cant startup the OSGI framework 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,735 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.eclipse.birt.core.framework.Platform.startup(Platform.java:91) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,735 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.eclipse.birt.report.service.ReportEngineService.setEngineContext(ReportEngineService.java:328) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,735 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.eclipse.birt.report.service.BirtViewerReportService.setContext(BirtViewerReportService.java:975) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,735 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.eclipse.birt.report.servlet.ViewerServlet.__getContext(ViewerServlet.java:148) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,735 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.eclipse.birt.report.servlet.BirtSoapMessageDispatcherServlet.doPost(BirtSoapMessageDispatcherServlet.java:204) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,735 ERROR [][STDERR] at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:710) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,735 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.service(AxisServletBase.java:327) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,735 ERROR [][STDERR] at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,735 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.eclipse.birt.report.servlet.BirtSoapMessageDispatcherServlet.service(BirtSoapMessageDispatcherServlet.java:112) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,736 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,736 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,736 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:687) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,736 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:590) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,736 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:505) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,736 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.apache.jsp.Query.CustomDisplay.Default_jsp._jspService(Default_jsp.java:71) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,736 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,736 ERROR [][STDERR] at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,736 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:393) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,736 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,736 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,736 ERROR [][STDERR] at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,736 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,736 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) 
2008-12-15 13:57:38,736 ERROR [][STDERR] at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:68

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dsu

BTW, the JBOSS is 4.2.1.GA version

Rajendhar

r u using MyEclipse?

dsu

No I am not using MyEclipse.

I think I have got the merge approach(i.e. merge birt.war into an existing war file) one step further. At least the error of "Cant startup the OSGI framework" is gone. But i got another error

"org.eclipse.birt.report.model.metadata.ChoicePropertyType validateXml
SEVERE: Not allowed choice any"

I think the platform directory has to be located under WEB-INF instead of $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib

But for separated birt.war and the existing gui.war, I still don't have a clue why jsp file inside gui.war can't access viewerservlet inside birt.war. I have tried many jboss config including crosscontext, unified classloader etc. I noticed there is a servlet filter defined inside birt.war, I removed that filter, it didn't help either.

aragornfbm

The error you're getting

("org.eclipse.birt.report.model.metadata.ChoicePropertyType validateXml
SEVERE: Not allowed choice any")

is actually caused by one of you report designs. In the new BIRT release (2.3.1), you can't set a Data item's type to "any". This was allowed in the previous releases, but it generates errors in the latest release.

I'm guessing you're trying to run an old report that you designed using a previous release, and this report contains Data elements whose data types have not been initialized. Try going through your reports and setting the right types.

dsu

Thank you aragornfbm!

I correct the dataType in .rptdesign. The ERROR is gone!

BTW, do you know if there is any other way to include the report viewer in a JSP file <div> except taglib? Does the open source eclipse birt have the JSAPI like the one in the Actuate BIRT interactive viewer?

Warm Regards,

aragornfbm

Sorry dsu, I have no idea. Good luck