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

["Kai Hemmer" <kh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.