BIRT with JBoss Seam not working

Eclipse 3.5 + Seam 2.2.0 + JBoss 5.1.0 + BIRT 2.5.1

I am trying to get the BIRT viewer working within my seam pages. I have the BIRT viewer running standalone fine (i.e. Call the test.rptdesign and it displays correctly.)

Now I have created a simple seam XHTML page as follows:

<p:birt xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"
xmlns:p="http://jboss.com/products/seam/birt" designType="frameset"
designName="test1.rptdesign" title="JBoss Birt Test">
</p:birt>

When I display the page in the browser, the page is blank and the source of the page still contains a generated HTML header, but the <p:birt> .......</p:birt> tag as it appeared in the XHTML.

My understanding is that when taglibs remain unresolved that the servlet has no idea how to process the <p:birt> tag. The birt.tld exists, and the BIRT jars all seem to exist in my web project. I suspect its a simple configuration issue, and the Eclipse, but cannot fine information on what I would need to verify. My guess is that I need to add something to web.xml regarding the birt TLD, or set some BIRT variable????

Any help or good document links is much appreciated.

Thanks

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JasonW

Which JBOSS integration download and what version of BIRT did you use?

Jason

Earnee

I am using the BIRT 2.5 WTP Integration SDK, JBoss BIRT Integration 1.1.0 and BIRT 2.5.1. Any idea what items I should look at ? 
 
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="JasonW">Which JBOSS integration download and what version of BIRT did you use? 
 
Jason</blockquote>

JasonW

I just tried as well and had not success. Have you checked on the JBoss forums?

eldiegolp

I had the same issue and solved it.

Eclipse 3.5 - Seam 2.2.0 - JBoss 4.2.3 - BIRT 2.5.1

I added every birt viewer descriptor to the web.xml. Theese can be found at eclipse.org.

Additionally, i added this entry to faces-config.xml in my web project:

<component>
<component-type>org.jboss.seam.birt.ui.UIDocument</component-type>
<component-class>org.jboss.seam.birt.ui.UIDocument</component-class>
</component>

<component>
<component-type>org.jboss.seam.birt.ui.UIParameter</component-type>
<component-class>org.jboss.seam.birt.ui.UIParameter</component-class>
</component>

Then i added the following dependencies:

jboss-birt-servlet.jar
jboss-seam-birt.jar

If you have installed JBoss Tools, you will find theese jars under eclipse/plugins/{jboss tools birt core JAR} which in my case is :

org.jboss.tools.birt.core_1.0.0.GA-R200905070146-H18.jar

I opened it with winrar and extracted both jars in it under /resources.

As you can see, the jboos-seam-birt.jar, under META-INF, has a file called seam-birt.taglib.xml, which makes the asociation between the JSF tag and the component class...previously defined in faces-config.xml.

Hope this helps
Best luck ,
Diego Ocampo

papesdiop

hi,
i got the same problem, i use jboss-seam-birt on tomcat, i can execute report to pdf with designType="run" but i got a blank page with designType="frameset". was it a configuration problem or a bug?
Thank you in advance.

maadri

Hi All

I got this working after I figured out that the JBoss Tools Birt plugin was not installed. After I installed it everything worked fine..

hakanmoral

Hello I just achieved success by applying http://docs.jboss.org/tools/3.2.0.GA/en/jboss_birt_plugin_ref_guide/html_single/index.html guide.

Download Eclipse (helios SR2)
Add Jboss Tools from Help -> Eclipse Market Place
After installing jboss tools Help -> Install New Software
inspect whether jboss birt integration is installed if not install it too.
Then from the link above download related birt plugin sets and add to eclipse (by unzipping to eclipse)
After that follow all the instruction and you will have an integrated seam - birt war or ear project.