BIRT JBoss - Tomcat deployment

Mikey

I am planning to write code on the back end / application server (JBoss) to get the report definition from the database, and run the report using the BIRT API <br />
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The front end (Tomcat) will make a call to the back end to run a particular report passing in the report parameters.<br />
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Tomcat and JBoss live on separate machines (I am not using the Tomcat that is bundled with JBoss)<br />
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I can imagine writing code such as<br />
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<strong class='bbc'>JBOSS</strong><br />
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public byte[] runReport(Report report, ReportParams[] params,....)
{
....
}
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and <strong class='bbc'>Tomcat</strong><br />
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public class ReportServlet extends HTTPServlet {
public void doGet(.......){
...... ....
response.getWriter().write(reportDelegate.runReport(.......));
}
}
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Now my question is, how does this work if the report's output format is HTML (ie, contains links to images & css) - I can get the report's HTML output from JBoss to Tomcat as a byte[], but how about the embedded images and css?

averma

Mickey:<br />
Here are a couple ways you can achieve this:<br />
<ul class='bbcol decimal'><li>Set your base image URL to use your back end server. <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.com/documentation/BIRT_220/EngineJavadoc/engine/api/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/api/HTMLRenderOption.html#setBaseImageURL(java.lang.String)'&gt;HTMLRenderOption.setBaseImageURL(...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;While generating the report you could set the image directory to your front end server. <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.com/documentation/BIRT_220/EngineJavadoc/engine/api/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/api/HTMLRenderOption.html#setImageDirectory(java.lang.String)'&gt;HTMLRenderOption.setImageDirectory(...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Ashwini

Mikey

Ashwini,

Thanks for that. I will give that a try.

Mikey

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="Mikey"><p>Ashwini,<br />
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Thanks for that. I will give that a try.</p></blockquote>
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That worked! Thanks