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Using a Report Viewer without having installed a webserver [message #208443]

Fri, 29 December 2006 08:09

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: manfred.zoetlNO_SPA_M.theater-suendenfall_keinspam.de

Hi community,

I am new on birt but very impressed by the functions of the report designer.

Now I'm trying to run a report outside the report designer and don't want to
install a webserver as it is hard to put all the steps in an install-file
for Windows.
I need to open a viewer-application (.exe) from my windows applicaton giving
the name of the report as a parameter and want to show
the report with the possibility to print to pdf or to a real printer.

Is there a way I can go? I can only find guides to setup a tomcat or another
webserver.

Thanks in advance
Manfred

Re: Using a Report Viewer without having installed a webserver [message #208462 is a reply to message #208443]

Fri, 29 December 2006 10:00

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: joboe.gmx.de

> Now I'm trying to run a report outside the report designer and don't want
> to
> install a webserver as it is hard to put all the steps in an install-file
> for Windows.
> I need to open a viewer-application (.exe) from my windows applicaton
> giving
> the name of the report as a parameter and want to show
> the report with the possibility to print to pdf or to a real printer.

Hello Manfred,

is your windows applications a Java Application developed by you? If yes, I
would try to use the Report Engine API
( http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/reportEngineAPI.p hp) to execute
the report from within your application and bundle the Engine with your
application.

Regards
Jochen

Re: Using a Report Viewer without having installed a webserver [message #208479 is a reply to message #208462]

Fri, 29 December 2006 11:06

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: manfred.zoetlNO_SPA_M.theater-suendenfall_keinspam.de

"Jochen Boehringer" <joboe@gmx.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:en3aif$d6s$1@utils.eclipse.org...
>> Now I'm trying to run a report outside the report designer and don't want
>> to
>> install a webserver as it is hard to put all the steps in an install-file
>> for Windows.
>> I need to open a viewer-application (.exe) from my windows applicaton
>> giving
>> the name of the report as a parameter and want to show
>> the report with the possibility to print to pdf or to a real printer.
>
> Hello Manfred,
>
> is your windows applications a Java Application developed by you? If yes,
> I would try to use the Report Engine API
> ( http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/reportEngineAPI.p hp) to
> execute the report from within your application and bundle the Engine with
> your application.
>
> Regards
> Jochen
>

Hello Jochen,

unfortunately it is a .NET application that I developed and I am also not
that familiar
with java development.
Is there maybe a ready-to-use application that I can use as report-viewer in
a windows
environment without having installed a webserver.
The application and the viewer should be easy to install. So it's not very
practical to
setup a webserver on each client computer.

Brgds
Manfred

Re: Using a Report Viewer without having installed a webserver [message #208549 is a reply to message #208479]

Sun, 31 December 2006 07:49

Eclipse User

Hi Manfred,
You can use the command line driven interface.
Install the Report Engine as Jochen describes and call "genReport.bat" in
the ReportEngine folder.
I'm using it to create PDF's from a Lotus Notes. When created, you can view
them via Acrobat or an PDF ActiveX in youyr application.
Hope this works for you,
Luc

"Manfred Z

Re: Using a Report Viewer without having installed a webserver [message #208587 is a reply to message #208479]

Tue, 02 January 2007 00:52

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: johnw.innoventsolutions.com

Manfred,

There are a few options. Using the Shell object, you should be able to
run the report engine from the command line. Instructions for using the
report engine ffrom the command line are on my blog at:
http://digiassn.blogspot.com/2006/07/birt-birt-report-schedu ling-without.html

If making a call from shell is not an attractive option for you, you
might want to consider looking into one of the Java-.Net bridges out
there. While I currently have that option on my "To-Do" list off things
to experiment with, I haven't actually tried it myself. But it is an option.

Whatever you do, don't expect J# compiler to work. I've had terrible
luck with it and BIRT since it follows an antiquated Java standard and I
get all sorts of compatibility issues.

John

Manfred Zötl wrote:
> "Jochen Boehringer" <joboe@gmx.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:en3aif$d6s$1@utils.eclipse.org...
>>> Now I'm trying to run a report outside the report designer and don't want
>>> to
>>> install a webserver as it is hard to put all the steps in an install-file
>>> for Windows.
>>> I need to open a viewer-application (.exe) from my windows applicaton
>>> giving
>>> the name of the report as a parameter and want to show
>>> the report with the possibility to print to pdf or to a real printer.
>> Hello Manfred,
>>
>> is your windows applications a Java Application developed by you? If yes,
>> I would try to use the Report Engine API
>> ( http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/reportEngineAPI.p hp) to
>> execute the report from within your application and bundle the Engine with
>> your application.
>>
>> Regards
>> Jochen
>>
>
> Hello Jochen,
>
> unfortunately it is a .NET application that I developed and I am also not
> that familiar
> with java development.
> Is there maybe a ready-to-use application that I can use as report-viewer in
> a windows
> environment without having installed a webserver.
> The application and the viewer should be easy to install. So it's not very
> practical to
> setup a webserver on each client computer.
>
> Brgds
> Manfred
>
>

Re: Using a Report Viewer without having installed a webserver [message #209038 is a reply to message #208587]

Wed, 03 January 2007 15:45

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: manfred.zoetlNO_SPA_M.theater-suendenfall_keinspam.de

Thanks all for the comments. I will try out all the given options.

Manfred

"John Ward" <johnw@innoventsolutions.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:encl5s$mfp$1@utils.eclipse.org...
> Manfred,
>
> There are a few options. Using the Shell object, you should be able to run
> the report engine from the command line. Instructions for using the report
> engine ffrom the command line are on my blog at:
> http://digiassn.blogspot.com/2006/07/birt-birt-report-schedu ling-without.html
>
> If making a call from shell is not an attractive option for you, you might
> want to consider looking into one of the Java-.Net bridges out there.
> While I currently have that option on my "To-Do" list off things to
> experiment with, I haven't actually tried it myself. But it is an option.
>
> Whatever you do, don't expect J# compiler to work. I've had terrible luck
> with it and BIRT since it follows an antiquated Java standard and I get
> all sorts of compatibility issues.
>
> John
>
> Manfred Z

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