BIRT 4.x on Tomcat 6 with JDK 6
BIRT 3.x on Tomcat 6 with JDK 6
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BIRT 3.x on Tomcat 6 with JDK 6
As of 3.7, deploying BIRT to an existing Tomcat instance is quick and easy.
If you have not already installed Tomcat 6 with JDK 6, you can do so here.
Step 1: Create a directory and download BIRT 3.x
Step 2: Unzip birt-runtime-3_7_2.zip
Step 3: Move the WebViewerExample directory to TOMCAT/webapps
Step 4: Rename the directory to something easy to type
Step 5: Download jdbc driver and save to Tomcat/lib directory.
Step 6: Download and install Jason Weathersby’s Filename Generator
Step 7: Delete the BIRT webcontent directory.