Calling Windward in a servlet

This is an example of how to create a servlet that uses Windward Reports. This example can be used with any app server - the specifics below are for Tomcat but most app servers work almost identically.

Tutorials

• Watch a video writing and running the below code
  
• The below tutorial in PDF format
• The below tutorial on the web

Tomcat

• To use, place the servlet directory in %TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps/WindwardReportsServlet
• In the directory %TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps/WindwardReportsServlet/WEB-INF/lib place the following jar files:
  • WindwardReports.jar
  • commons-codec.jar
  • dom4j.jar
  • iText.jar (pdf reports only)
  • iTextAsian.jar (pdf reports in CJK only)
  • Do not put log4j.jar in the lib directory. It must be copied to %TOMCAT_HOME%/common/lib!
• Place your WindwardReports.properties file in the WEB-INF directory (the WindwardReports.properties file in this example does not have a legitimate license key).
• Make sure you create the directory %TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps/WindwardReportsServlet/images
• Run build.bat in the WEB-INF/classes/com/windwardreports directory.
• index.html explains the rest.
• Once Tomcat is running, you can go to http://localhost:8080/ to verify that Tomcat is successfully installed and running.

The files

• The files are in the \htmlhelp\samples\java\files\servlet subdirectory under your installation of Windward.
• The entire project in a zip file - ServletJavaApp.zip

Running this sample

Note: You need to install Tomcat, start Tomcat, build this example, and install this example in Tomcat before the following link will work. Once you have done all that go to http://localhost:8080/WindwardReportsServlet/ and you should see the servlet.