This topic describes how to install the BIRT web archive
on the WebSphere® Application
Server.
Before you begin
Rational®
ClearQuest® supports only a subset of the available releases of the Business and Intelligence and Reporting
tools (BIRT) reports.
Review technote 1509579 before selecting the version to install. Download the BIRT runtime archive
suitable for use with Java/J2EE applications from the BIRT project page available at
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/. Extract
the contents of the archive to a temporary directory.
Procedure
- From a web browser, go to the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console
URL access the web page:
http://server_host:port/ibm/console/login.do
Where
port is the port for the WebSphere
Application Server profile. If WebSphere was installed
in a new profile directory, the default port is 12060. If it was installed in the default WebSphere profile, the admin port is 9060. You can also
find the configured port in the profile information file <WAS installation
directory>/profiles/logs/AboutThisProfile.txt.
- Select Applications -> Application Types -> WebSphere enterprise
applications.
- Click Install.
- From the Preparing for the application installation page,
click Browse and go to the directory containing
the BIRT web archive file (birt.war) that you downloaded
and extracted from the BIRT project page as described in the Before
your begin prerequisites for this procedure.
- Click Next.
- From the Preparing for the application installation page,
click Next.
- From the Select installation options page,
click Next.
- From the Map modules to servers page,
select Eclipse BIRT Report Viewer. Then, click Next.
- From the Map virtual hosts for Web modules page,
select Eclipse BIRT Report Viewer. Then, click Next.
- From the Map context roots for Web modules page,
type the context root /birt. Then, click Next.
- From the Summary page, review the
settings. Then, click Finish.
- After successful deployment, click Save to
save changes to the master configuration.