Deployment
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Installation of the BIRT Viewer is documented at a number of places. The Eclipse
BIRT website has some great tutorials at:
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/viewerSetup.php
http://wiki.eclipse.org/BIRT/FAQ/Deployment
This is also documented on my website in a series of articles introducing people
to BIRT:
http://digiassn.blogspot.com/2005/10/birt-report-server-pt-2.html
I won't go into the details about installing Apache Tomcat as this is covered in
depth in other locations, but I will cover how to install the Viewer in a Tomcat
environment. For the most part these instructions can be used in other J2EE
containers, such as WebSphere. In some cases a WAR package is used instead. I
prefer Tomcat because it is a widely used open-source J2EE environment.
Under the BIRT Runtime package is a folder containing an example Web Viewer
application. The Web Viewer is a useful application as you require basic report
viewing capabilities, such as parameter passing, pagination, and export capabilities
to formats such as Word, Excel, RTF, and CSV.
For this example, I have Apache Tomcat 5.5 installed into a folder at
C:\apache-tomcat-5.5.25. To install the Web Viewer, I simply need to copy the
WebViewerExample folder from the BIRT Runtime to the web application folder at
C:\apache-tomcat-5.
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