Flash Plugin jar dependencies

johnmcase

I am writing a simple report that is using one of the Flash objects, specifically Scatter.swf. I wrote a plugin implementing IDataExtractionExtension to produce the XML that the flash chart requires. This is all working nicely.

From within the plugin, I want to be able to use the apache commons-lang library to escape some XML. I'm a Java developer by trade, so I'm very comfortable in doing that, just add the jar to the project's build path and update my code.

I'm having a problem now when I run this report with the updated plugin via the "View Report in Web Viewer" button on the designer. The error that I see when I turn the flash debugger on is "Information Console extract data failed."

I assume this error is that the web viewer cannot find the commons-lang.jar file.

So I have a couple of questions:

1) What is the proper way to package this plugin so that it includes the jar file.
1a) If you aren't supposed to package the jar file within the plugin, where can I drop the jar file so that the web viewer can use it?

2) Where is the log file that the Web Viewer writes to? Looking at this would greatly help me figure out this problem and other problems that I am having or will have.

Thanks!