title: BIRT integration into Spring web app
body: <p>So I am developing a Spring Web Application using -</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Eclipse Indigo</li>
  <li>Spring MVC</li>
  <li>Spring JDBC</li>
  <li>JDK 1.5</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I've configured my controllers, contexts, etc and everything is running properly. Now, I have a few <strong>excel</strong> files on my server which I want to display as nice BIRT reports(HTML) in my web app(view).</p>
  
  <p><strong>Question-</strong>
  Where do I start ? Which parts of BIRT(3.7.2) do I need to download or integrate into eclipse ? How to write Java code to pick up the excel(xls,xlsx) file from server, convert it into a BIRT report and show it in my JSP ? 
  If someone can just point me towards the right direction..</p>