configuring crystal reports w/ struts

[Jim Colwood]

Hi,

I am using "crystal reports" facet in RAD 7 to add a reporting module in my existing J2EE web app. I am using Struts & iBatis frameworks in my app. It seems like a nightmare to configure crystal reports with struts. Currently, my directory structure looks like this.

Web Content->crystalreportviewers(folder containing css, html, images, js folders and crystalimagehandler.jsp)
Web Content->reports->xyz.rpt
Web Content->WEB-INF->pages->reports->xyz-viewer.jsp
Web Content->WEB-INF->crystal-tags-reportviewer.tld
src->CRConfig.xml

the real trouble is, when i use struts forward to display the viewer JSP, it doesn't display report if the JSP is under WEB-INF. i can display report if i keep my JSP outside WEB-INF, under Web Content. but i don't want to expose my JSP for obvious reasons.

any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

[Merrill Higginson]

I suggest moving your JSPs so they are under web content. Then add the following entry to your web.xml file:

<security-constraint>
  <web-resource-collection>
    <web-resource-name>no_access</web-resource-name>
    <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
  </web-resource-collection>
  <auth-constraint/>
</security-constraint>

This will deny direct access to your JSPs just as well as putting them in WEB-INF.

[Jim Colwood]

i tried different patterns to distinguish between my index.jsp & viewer jsp's for crystal reports. it either blocks access to all pages or doesn't block any! any suggestions? also, can anyone provide a sample configuration of crystal reports with struts framework?