How to integrate BIRT viewer in RCP application

I am looking to integrate BIRT with one of the RCP application. But I am not clear how best we can integrate the BIRT. Following option I explored to do-
 
1) Integrate Report Engine at RCP client. By having Report Engine plugin as a part of client and running report in client side inside RCP application. But this will make client too heavy and possible require more memory in each client machine to execute reports.
 
2) Second to deploy report engine in server and viewer in RCP client. Here we are not clear in term of integration. We required report to be run on same user session under which request is sent by client RCP Application. Any suggestion will help on this.
 
Any suggestion on how to resolve it will be also appreciated.
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JFreeman

If you want BIRT fully integrated into the RCP application for generating report output, you will need to go with option 1.
 
The setup you described with option 2 isn't going to save much in they way of resources needed and will cause increased complexity. You will either want to fully integrate it into the application for running/rendering reports or fully externalize the running/rendering if you are worried about resources.

Kartik Sharma

Hi.. Thanks for the solution. If I go with option 1, then how to proceed with it. Can you please refer some links from where I can take help on how to integrate BIRT into RCP applications. I tried finding it out but couldn't get any wise solution to follow. Please help. Thanks.

JFreeman

Take a look at this page on integrating BIRT into an RCP application: <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://wiki.eclipse.org/RCP_Example_(BIRT)_2.1'>https://wiki.eclipse.org/RCP_Example_(BIRT)_2.1</a>

Kartik Sharma

Thanks for the above link. I got what I wanted. One last question , is it possible to intergrate BIRT report editor into the RCP application? I mean the Palette and the editor on which end user can drag and drop elements. Thanks.

JFreeman

That should be possible. There is an RCP version of the BIRT Designer that includes the pallet functionality.

Kartik Sharma

Ok.Thanks for the help.

JFreeman

You're welcome.
Let us know if you have additional questions.