Interested in BIRT, but using ASP.NET

mysterd429

Hi, all. I was looking at BIRT today, and I'd like to use it, but the applications I write as ASP.NET. I know that there's an option for JSAPI, but I'm not sure how that would work with authentication, since our applications require the user to authenticate, and I don't want to expose the data in the reports to users who aren't logged in.

Has anyone else solved this problem who would be willing to share the solution? If so, how did you solve it?

If not, could I create a tomcat instance that would only accept connections from our application server machine, then create as part of the ASP.NET system a mechanism for sending an HTTP request to the tomcat server and repeating the response back to the request from ASP.NET, then point the JSAPI in JavaScript to the "redirect" URL on the ASP.NET application?

This looks like a great tool. Thanks in advance!

averma

Hi mysterd429,
JSAPI supports single-sign on, here is a link to a wiki page and product documentation that gives more information:
http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/wiki/index.php?title=Managing_Security_with_the_JSAPI
http://www.birt-exchange.com/be/documentation/actuate11-pdfs/using-jsapi.pdf

Ashwini