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Bug 314373

Summary:	setContextClassLoader() and WebSphere deployment
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Jim Garrison <jgarrison>
Component:	BIRT	Assignee:	Birt-ReportEngine-inbox <Birt-ReportEngine-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Xiaoying Gu <bluesoldier>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	afarrell, bluesoldier, jouyang, wyan
Version:	2.5.2	Keywords:	core
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	Obsolete

Description Jim Garrison

2010-05-25 18:27:48 EDT

Build Identifier: BIRT 2.5.2

We are trying to deploy the Web Viewer in a highly security-restricted WebSphere environment that does not allow setContextClassLoader(). Since setContextClassLoader() is called in a number of places within BIRT, we are effectively prevented from using BIRT in WebSphere.

A quick scan of the source reveals 27 references in 12 classes scattered about the following packages

* org.eclipse.birt.core
* org.eclipse.birt.report.engine
* org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer

as well as some in UI components, which aren't a conflict for us.

I posted the above as a question on the Community Forums site (http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=168802&start=0&) and was asked to submit a bug, so here it is.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jim Garrison

2010-05-25 18:30:03 EDT

Set version, added keywords

Comment 2 Wei Yan

2010-05-25 22:20:29 EDT

BIRT must invoke the setContextClassLoader to set the class loader as BIRT is running in the OSGi framework.

Comment 3 Jim Garrison

2010-05-26 15:40:34 EDT

@wei yan: I'm not sure I understand.  Are you saying that all of OSGi and BIRT are fundamentally incompatible with a high-security container that disallows setContextClassLoader()?

Comment 4 Wei Yan

2010-05-26 20:18:25 EDT

Correct.

Comment 5 Jun Ouyang

2010-08-19 04:23:58 EDT

See comment 2.

Comment 6 Xiaoying Gu

2010-11-17 03:26:35 EST

*** Bug 328025 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***