Most application servers require a WAR file that contains everything that the application requires, including a web.xml file describing the application and various deployment preferences. The BIRT Report Engine includes a WAR file appropriate to Tomcat. Typically, the WAR file does not require modification. In some cases, developers who have experience with other application servers can modify the web.xml file to reflect the requirements of their environments. The section on mapping the report viewer folders, later in this chapter, discusses setting the web.xml parameters.

Deployment to JBoss may require copying axis.jar and axis-ant.jar from WEB-INF/lib to the following directory:

This step is not necessary for all versions of JBoss, but if there are difficulties with a JBoss deployment, copying these files can resolve the problem.