title: BIRT in spring boot app
body: <p>I need to create a report capability(function) in an existing spring boot web application. The suggestion was to use BIRT, which I could integrate with the spring boot web app. </p>
  
  <p>I found the article below and was able to run the reports in a spring boot starter project (using <a href="http://start.spring.io/" rel="noreferrer">http://start.spring.io/</a>). This article, fairly old, did help me to get to a working example. <a href="https://spring.io/blog/2012/01/30/spring-framework-birt" rel="noreferrer">https://spring.io/blog/2012/01/30/spring-framework-birt</a>. This article is basically exactly what I want, but in a spring boot web app.</p>
  
  <p>The challenge I have is to run the report using the BIRT viewer, which comes with nice additional features. (Print, Expoet data, PDF, pagination etc.)</p>
  
  <p>I cannot find any spring boot example using BIRT the way this article describes. </p>
  
  <p>My questions are:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Is there an alternative or other way to do reports in a spring boot web application? (obviously not want to re-inventing the wheel by creating BIRT like capability from scratch or run the report engine separate from the web application if at all possible) </p></li>
  <li><p>Does anyone today have BIRT working (with the viewer) in a spring boot web application and be willing to share or educate me on the best way to do this? 
  (I tried to get JSP page working with spring boot, but unable to so successfully...more a lack of experience than anything else)</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Can someone help me please. </p>
  
  <p>Kind Regards,
  Henk</p>