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Birt Viewer: security and handlers [message #496264]

Mon, 09 November 2009 14:31

Nicola

Messages: 184
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi,
I need way to put into security a the birt viewer that runs on jboss as
a standalone application (let's call it A), while another application
(B) with its own contextRoot.

From applB I am going to open a report calling applA and passing the
sessionID of the current userSession.
In Birt (applA) I need to activate a callback before accessing the
datasource and receive a confirmation that the user is allowed to run
the report.
It sounds good to me to take advantage of the report lifecycle and do a
check at the very beginning of it.

What I would like to know is:
1) best practice to do that in BIRT: Javascript or Java (I am oriented
towards this last one)
2) a link to some documentation about handlers
3) as it seems to me a common problem (i.e. security in birt viewer), is
there a solution for that?
4) maybe is there a way to use WebService to check security permissions?

Thank you in advance for you suggestions and your time dedicated to me,
cheers
Nicola

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Re: Birt Viewer: security and handlers [message #496403 is a reply to message #496264]

Mon, 09 November 2009 21:48

Scott Rosenbaum

Messages: 425
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Nicola,

Open Source BIRT does not have any security mechanisms. You could take a
look at the commercial Actuate products or this article provides information
on how to roll your own.

http://www.birt-exchange.org/devshare/designing-birt-reports /1012-increase-security-on-birt-reports/#description

Scott Rosenbaum

> ) a link to some documentation about handlers
> 3) as it seems to me a common problem (i.e. security in birt viewer),
> is
> there a solution for that?

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