can some one please help me

ganesh1984

Hi All,

I am new to BIRT. I have downloaded the birt-report-designer-all-in-one-2_3_0 and gone through the flash tutorial. I have created a sample template (sample.rptdesign). Later I have downloaded birt-runtime-2_2_1 and copied ReportEngine folder to my JBoss seam application. In java class i am reading sample.rptdesign and exporting it to HTML and XLS format. these things are working fine.

MY requirement is :

1) report templates will be generated and stored in DB in the byte[] format. whenever a particular report is accessed, that particular byte[] is fetched and a report is rendered.

2) After rendering the report, i should provide the options for user to pass parameters for filtering and exporting the report to different formats like HTML,PDF, XLS, etc....

MY question is :

1) i can generate the templates (.rptdesign files) and store them in DB as byte[]. I can also fetch them, but how to render them as report. What is the best approach for this?. I took a look on BIRT report viewer. using it we can do filtering and can export reports to different formats as well. But how to integrate BIRT report viewer in my application. how to pass the report ( byte[] ) to BIRT report viewer from my java class.

2) I found this link : Installing the BIRT Viewer in Tomcat and jboss for
Installing the BIRT Viewer in Tomcat and jboss. It says how to deploy the WebViewerExample of birt-runtime-2_2_1 package in tomcat and JBoss . But how to integrate it ?.

If anybody has sample code to render reports from java class, then please provide it. it will be a great help.

Any help and suggestions are appreciated.


Thanx,
ganesh