[news.eclipse.birt] Load Balancing (BIRT_VIEWER_WORKING_FOLDER)

[jkoch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (James Koch)]

I'm a bit new to BIRT, but I'm having a heck of a time getting BIRT Viewer 
2.2.2 to play nice in a load balanced environment where we'd like to read 
rptdesign files from, and write report output to, a Windows file share.  
Anyone doing this successfully?

I've tried several dozen formats for the paths:
- \\server\path
- //server/path
- file:////server/path

And various locations for the setting:
- passing __report and __document through the Viewer/frameset
- setting web.xml values

Certain combinations of the above will let me reliably output documents to 
a UNC path while keeping rptdesign local.  However I have not been able to 
simultaneously take input from a UNC path and output to a UNC path.  
Specifically, when I try to do both, the rptdesign file is read, and the 
output is created, but something in my report parameters gets thrown out 
of whack such that code we have in a ScriptedDataSet gets some bogus 
parameters (I think) and ends up returning zero records).

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

James