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

[Jason Weathersby <jasonweathersby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James,

When you get errors, does anything show up in the log?
What happens when you use the classic models sample db?

Jason

James Koch wrote:
> 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