Why is the JasperViewer closing my Tomcat server?
I’m a little embarrassed to write this FAQ, but many similar questions posted on the JasperReports forums indicate that this might be very useful to some people out-there. First of all, if you experience this, it means we are talking about a Web application. The JasperViewer is a Swing based desktop application. So the first thing you should ask yourself is: “How should I expect a desktop Swing client application to work within a Web server?” If you did not ask yourself this yet, then please take your Web application and deploy it on a different computer and try to access it using a browser from your computer. What do you see when you get to the point where the JasperViewer should pop-up? Do you see it opening up on your computer, which is the client machine? Of course not! You see it being open on the other machine, which is now the server. While you were working with the Web server on your computer, everything went well, because you probably did not realize that your machine acted bo
