Using Eclipse BIRT Report Designer via PHP

Question

I want to use Birt reports in php web project. So I set up the Java Bridge and BIRT Runtime recommendation by moving JavaBridgeTemplate621.war and birt.war to my Tomcat.

After that, I wrote a short class calling BirtEngine:

try { $ctx = java_context()->getServletContext(); $this->birdEngine = java("org.eclipse.birt.php.birtengine.BirtEngine")->getBirtEngine($ctx); java_context()->onShutdown( java("org.eclipse.birt.php.birtengine.BirtEngine")->getShutdownHook() ); } catch (java_InternalException $e) { die($e->getMessage()); } 

As I find out that $e->getMessage() returns "" , I look at catalina.out, and there I found this exception:

 23.03.2011 15:02:43 org.apache.cxf.interceptor.AttachmentInInterceptor handleMessage INFO: AttachmentInInterceptor skipped in HTTP GET method 23.03.2011 15:02:43 org.apache.cxf.interceptor.StaxInInterceptor handleMessage INFO: StaxInInterceptor skipped. 23.03.2011 15:02:43 org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.interceptor.ReadHeadersInterceptor handleMessage INFO: ReadHeadersInterceptor skipped in HTTP GET method 23.03.2011 15:02:43 org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain doIntercept INFO: Interceptor has thrown exception, unwinding now org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault: No such operation: at org.apache.cxf.interceptor.URIMappingInterceptor.handleMessage(URIMappingInterceptor.java:77) at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:220) at org.apache.cxf.transport.ChainInitiationObserver.onMessage(ChainInitiationObserver.java:78) at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.ServletDestination.invoke(ServletDestination.java:92) at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.ServletController.invokeDestination(ServletController.java:285) at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.ServletController.invoke(ServletController.java:168) at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.AbstractCXFServlet.invoke(AbstractCXFServlet.java:175) at org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.AbstractCXFServlet.doGet(AbstractCXFServlet.java:157) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:857) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.birt.php.birtengine.BirtEngine at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1645) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1491) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) at php.java.bridge.Util.classForName(Util.java:1518) at php.java.bridge.JavaBridge.CreateObject(JavaBridge.java:445) at php.java.bridge.Request.handleRequest(Request.java:444) at php.java.bridge.Request.handleRequests(Request.java:500) at php.java.bridge.http.ContextRunner.run(ContextRunner.java:145) at php.java.bridge.ThreadPool$Delegate.run(ThreadPool.java:60) 

This line especially attracts my attention:

 java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.birt.php.birtengine.BirtEngine 

But every attempt to get help from Google and shared websites failed. Therefore, I hope that someone from this site can help me.

Answer 1

I know this is an old question, but I successfully run BIRT through a PHP Java bridge. The PHP code you have is correct. But the way to use WAR files is not.

Basically you are one war file with PHP / JavaBridge and BIRT files + a special class for loading BIRTs in the JAVA bridge.

If you still have not solved this problem, I could make the WAR file that I am using available.

Answer 2

If anyone else has a problem with calling BIRT from php here is a very good tutorial that helped me a lot.