Is there a light weight desktop deployment model for BIRT?

LizM

I hope this is not too much of a newbie question :-)

I'm aware of the BIRT deployment info but I am wondering if there is a desktop deployment model? Some viewer implementation that I could install on my report users PC's? (without scaring them with the whole eclipse setup !)

I know this is a bit odd, but I can't get access to the servers etc to do any kind of web deployment/test at the moment and I have users that need to run the reports NOW! :-)

Many thanks in advance for your assistance

Davolio

If you know how, setup a JBOSS server on your PC and deploy the viewer with WAR file in the viewer (you can find out how to do this on the BIRT wiki). Bind the address so that people can access it from other PCS in your domain. If you are on a domain. As far as a true desktop deployment, I can't think of one off hand... but i'm not one of the uberexperts on this forum. They might have an easier way to do it. Your users will then be able to run the reports off of the server on your PC (which shouldn't be too terrible as long as there aren't a whole lot of users) for a temp solution until you can get the real servers available. <br />
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Hope that was kind of useful,<br />
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This link may help:<br />
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/viewerUsage2.2.php'>Using the BIRT Report Viewer</a><br />
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<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/viewerSetup.php'>Installing the BIRT Viewer in Tomcat</a><br />
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Regards,<br />
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Dave