Stream a report in a struts framework

[wegnerk]

Hi, i have reports with hibernate connection working fine, but there is a great framework around. So i try to explain my problem:

 

we have some projects (eclipse) (5 at least) and the reporting thing is done in one of them. But the streaming happens in another project, because it is a struts framework and the reporting is started in an action-class. Now, the hole thing is deployed to a .war-file, which is not in the reporting project. I wrote a new task in that deploy.xml, so that the .jrxml-file is copied to the running directory of the application.

But when i start tomcat and the webapplication, it doesn't find the .jrxml file there. I tried it with an absolute path, then it works, but that is not the way it should be, because the hole thing will be on a server somewhere and out of my reach. I also tried some kind of slashes (/, //, ,\), but i get the same exception FileNotFound.

 

Any ideas? i know, that this is not a direct jasper-problem, but perhaps, someone has an idea for me...

[lucianc]

Not sure whether this would suit your needs, but you can load *.jrxml files as claspath resources. Your reporting module could produce a jar packing the *.jrxml files which should be placed on your web application's classpath.

 

HTH,

Lucian

[wegnerk]

Thanks Lucian,

 

thats also a good idea. but i found out, how to change the deploy.xml. so the report files are copied in a reports directory in the other project. And i changed a bit the way how reports are called: now, the jasper-file gets an InputStream in the action class, and that stream is delivered to my report-package.

 

but i will try it with the class-path, that would be easier perhaps ;-)

[codyjasperForge]

Anyone have suggestions for accessing Jasperserver using struts in a webapp?

 

I'm new to the subject, I know the format of the request object. I need to know how to connect to JasperServer, and how to send the request to JasperServer. PLEASE! Any help is appreciated.