Posts Tagged ‘tomcat’
Eclipse BIRT comes with Report Viewer, a J2EE application used for generating and displaying reports. Whilst deploying and using the out-of-the-box application on Tomcat is straightforward, there are fairly rich configuration and parametrization options which are non-obvious. The following two documents describe how the viewer works and how to control its behaviour. BIRT Viewer User’s […]
JDBC drivers need to be put in the following location to be available in BIRT Viewer. Putting them into <TOMCAT HOME>/common/lib does not work in BIRT and you will get a “cannot load JDBC driver” error. <TOMCAT HOME>/webapps/birt/WEB-INF/platform/plugins/org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.jdbc_2.3.1.v20080827/drivers The Tomcat path and version number will depend on your environment.
Here’s how to install Apache Tomcat version 5.5 on an Ubuntu machine (note that there is nothing Ubutu specific in these steps). This will form one of the foundation steps for a series of posts in which we will build a fully open-source business intelligence platform. First, install Java JDK. I am using Sun’s version […]