Configuring BIRT Analytics Loader
BIRT Analytics Loader is the web application that reads configuration parameters from the file configuration.xml.
BIRT Analytics Loader reads configuration parameters from the file configuration.xml. BIRT Analytics Loader reads user interface configuration parameters from the file clientsettings.xml. On a Windows system, the location of the configuration files is:
<BIRTAnalytics Installation folder>\FastDB\Loader\WEB-INF\settings
On a Linux system, the location of the configuration files is:
<BIRTAnalytics Installation folder>/WebClient/WEB-INF/settings
Each configuration parameter in configuration.xml is an XML element in the <configuration> element. The value of the parameter is the element value.
Listing 2‑6 shows the configuration settings in the configuration.xml file for BIRT Analytics Loader.
Listing 2‑6 BIRT Analytics Loader configuration settings
<configuration>
<projectspath>C:\Actuate3\BIRTAnalytics\data\FastDB\loading-projects</projectspath>
<descriptor>descriptor.txt</descriptor>
<urlclient>fastdbloader/build/client.jsp</urlclient>
<urladmin>admin/build/client.jsp</urladmin>
<title>BIRT Analytics QLoader</title>
<transformationslist>transformations.xml</transformationslist>
<ignoresslerrors>1</ignoresslerrors>
<!-- uploading files. Unit is Kb -->
<maxmemsize>1024</maxmemsize>
<!-- uploading files. Unit is Kb. -1 or 0 mean no limit -->
<maxfilesize>-1</maxfilesize>
<connectionstringsfile>connectionstrings.xml</connectionstringsfile>
<!-- electron WS location and namespace -->
<electronurl>http://localhost:8110/electronws/services</electronurl>
<electronqname>http://services.ws.electron.ba.actuate.com</electronqname>
<electronns>com.actuate.ba.electron.ws.services</electronns>
<!-- information -->
<baversion>5</baversion>
</configuration>
Each user interface configuration parameter in clientsettings.xml is an XML <setting> element in the <settings> element. The name of the parameter is the value of the name attribute. The value of the parameter is the element value.
Listing 2‑7 shows the user interface configuration settings in the clientsettings.xml file for BIRT Analytics Loader.
Listing 2‑7 BIRT Analytics Loader user interface configuration settings
<settings>
<setting name="resourceUri">resource</setting>
<setting name="wsBase">/qloader</setting>
<setting name="wsBaseFrontend">/bafrontend</setting>
<setting name="wsBaseAdmin">/baadmin</setting>
<setting name="dispatcher">/dispatcher</setting>
<setting name="help">/help</setting>
<setting name="sendByPost">/SendByPost.jsp</setting>
<setting name="timeout">6000000</setting>
<setting name="dispatcherUri">../../../dispatcher</setting>
<setting name="debug">1</setting>
<setting name="wrongResponseBehaviour">silent</setting>
<setting name="msgInterval">60000</setting>
<setting name="applicationName">BIRT Analytics Loader</setting>
<setting name="discretevaluespagesize">100</setting>
<setting name="thousandseparator">,</setting>
<setting name="decimalseparator">.</setting>
</settings>