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HTTP 500 error, previewing my report in the report designer [message #49651]

Wed, 22 June 2005 14:28

Eclipse User

I am having a similar problem, to another post earlier in
the news group.

Heres the deal, I have a Birt project that contains reports in it.

I installed eclipse 3.x.x and installed birt 1.0 and then did a project
import. My reports come up, in the report editor, but when I go to the
preview tab, I get the following error:

------------------------

HTTP Status 500 -

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented
it from fulfilling this request.

-------------------------

Bizarre, any ideas? In the mean time, will keep looking at this.

Re: HTTP 500 error, previewing my report in the report designer [message #49711 is a reply to message #49651]

Wed, 22 June 2005 15:00

Eclipse User

Several issues that may cause 500 error.
1) Java compiler is missing or not properly configed.
2) Using certain JDK versions lower than JDK1.4.2_08, such as JDK1.4.2_04.
3) Eclipse's workspace is on a remote file system.
4) Installing the new Birt version without clear out the old one. This
could be the reason of "ClassCastException" mentioned in Daniel's msg.

If none of above happens in your local env, please let us know the tomcat
error log at "elcipse
home\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.tomcat\" so that we can
figure out what the problem is.

Re: HTTP 500 error, previewing my report in the report designer [message #50474 is a reply to message #49711]

Thu, 23 June 2005 11:38

Eclipse User

Thanks for the fast reply, in regards to #1 below.

So BIRT requires javac.exe to be on the path or some how available, can
you give some specifics as to this requirement? If I ship a product
thats going to use BIRT I have to ship part of the JSDK, or make sure
the user has the JSDK installed not just the JRE?

Thanks for additional information here

- Mike

Jun Zhai wrote:
> Several issues that may cause 500 error.
> 1) Java compiler is missing or not properly configed.
> 2) Using certain JDK versions lower than JDK1.4.2_08, such as JDK1.4.2_04.
> 3) Eclipse's workspace is on a remote file system.
> 4) Installing the new Birt version without clear out the old one. This
> could be the reason of "ClassCastException" mentioned in Daniel's msg.
>
> If none of above happens in your local env, please let us know the
> tomcat error log at "elcipse
> home\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.tomcat\" so that we can
> figure out what the problem is.
>

Re: HTTP 500 error, previewing my report in the report designer [message #50642 is a reply to message #50474]

Thu, 23 June 2005 13:58

Eclipse User

Mike,

Yes. JDK is required since Birt viewer implementation includes some jsp
pages that need to be compiled. In Birt installation guildline, we specify
that users need to make sure they have JDK installed.

Jun Zhai

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