Re: [birt-report-engine-dev] BIRTReport Engine in a Portlet

["Deepa Remesh" <dremesh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Which portal server are you using? The below solution had worked for
me for Apache Jetspeed-2 portal.

Also, I think posting this question to the BIRT newsgroup may make it
visible to more people and maybe produce more responses.

Thanks,
Deepa

On 12/1/06, Kai Hemmer <kh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm trying to use the BIRTReportEngine API in a portlet.
>
> I have been trying to do this by modifying the servlet example on the web
> site: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Servlet_Example
>
> My problem now is to get a ServletContext from the portlet in order to
> create and get an IReportEngine-object.
>
> I know there was an article from Deepa Remesh (Tue, 24 Oct 2006) with the
> following subject "Deploying BIRT Report Engine in a portlet ?". Deepa
> resolved the problem by casting the portletContext into PortletContextImpl
> and called the method getServletContext().
>
> ServletContext sc =
> ((PortletContextImpl)req.getPortletSession().getPortletContext()).getServlet
> Context();
>
> But I get a classCastException by doing this!
>
> Does anyone have an idea what to do?
>
> Or is there any other way to create an IReportEngine in a portlet?
>
> I would appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> P.
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