The custom emitters in BIRT are implemented as plug-ins and packaged as JAR files. To make them available to the Actuate products that support them, copy the emitters to the MyClasses folder. The MyClasses folder appears at different levels on different platforms and but it is always available at the product’s installation folder. For iServer the folder is at the following location:
When you install InformationConsole.war file to your own J2EE application server, the shared folder MyClasses is not available. In this case, custom emitter plug-ins should be copied to the following folder:
Every time you deploy a custom emitter you need to restart the product. This ensures the emitter JAR is added to the classpath and the product can discover the new rendering format. For iServer deployment you must execute an extra step to register the emitter with iServer.
