Developing Actuate Information Delivery API applications

To run the BIRT iHub Integration Technology example applications for the Apache Axis 2 client, open a command prompt. Navigate to the Axis Client directory.

In a Windows environment, you can run the file, setClassPath.bat, to set the environment variables needed to access the required source code, compiled classes, libraries, and other resources. setClassPath.bat contains the following environment variable settings:

set SAMPLEBASEDIR=.

set LIBDIR=%SAMPLEBASEDIR%\lib

set AXIS_JAR=%LIBDIR%\axis.jar;%LIBDIR%\commons-discovery.jar;
%LIBDIR%\commons-logging.jar;%LIBDIR%\jaxrpc.jar;%LIBDIR%
\log4j-1.2.4.jar;%LIBDIR%\wsdl4j.jar

set SUN_JAR=%LIBDIR%\activation.jar;%LIBDIR%\mail.jar;%LIBDIR%
\saaj.jar

set XMLPARSER_JAR=%LIBDIR%\xercesImpl.jar;%LIBDIR%
\xmlParserAPIs.jar

set CLASSPATH=%AXIS_JAR%;%SUN_JAR%;%SAMPLEBASEDIR%\build;
%SAMPLEBASEDIR%\source;%XMLPARSER_JAR%;%LIBDIR%\servlet.jar;

In a UNIX environment, you can run the shell script, setClassPath.sh. setClassPath.sh contains the following environment variable settings:

#!/bin/sh

export SAMPLEBASEDIR

export LIBDIR

export AXIS_JAR

export SUN_JAR

export XMLPARSER_JAR

export CLASSPATH

SAMPLEBASEDIR='pwd'

LIBDIR=$SAMPLEBASEDIR/lib

AXIS_JAR=$LIBDIR/axis.jar:$LIBDIR/commons-discovery.jar:$LIBDIR/commons-logging.jar:$LIBDIR/jaxrpc.jar:$LIBDIR/log4j-1.2.4.jar:$LIBDIR/wsdl4j.jar

SUN_JAR=$LIBDIR/activation.jar:$LIBDIR/mail.jar:$LIBDIR/saaj.jar

XMLPARSER_JAR=$LIBDIR/xercesImpl.jar:$LIBDIR/xmlParserAPIs.jar

CLASSPATH=$AXIS_JAR:$SUN_JAR:$SAMPLEBASEDIR/build:$SAMPLEBASEDIR/source:$XMLPARSER_JAR:$LIBDIR/servlet.jar

The following sections describe the use of the Axis TCPMonitor utility to capture SOAP messages and the development process for following types of Actuate Information Delivery API applications:

The code examples and explanations in this chapter parallel the code examples and explanations in Chapter 22, “Developing Actuate Information Delivery API applications using Microsoft .NET.”