title: Taking advantage of BIRT standalone runtime
body: <p>Well, I'm building my application project over a Tomcat 6 server. Being my own application packaged as a <em>war</em> file, I've included the whole <strong>BIRT 4.2</strong> engine into it, being now able to generate my custom reports on there. The BIRT runtime environment dependencies made my <em>war</em> file to deploy grow up about 20 MB in size.</p>
  
  <p>However, recently I found BIRT has <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/birt/downloads/drops/R-R1-4_3_0-201306131152/birt-runtime-4_3_0.zip" rel="nofollow">its standalone runtime</a> packaged also as a <em>war</em> file (also called BIRT viewer), which I now use to test the reports I create in pdf format. It's so straightforward to use, it only requires the report file value and its parameters, which you pass as a <em>GET</em> request. It displays the reports in a viewer, where you can get them downloaded from too.</p>
  
  <p>My question is, in which way can I integrate my own application and that runtime just to when a download is requested from my application to let the standalone runtime manage it? This also involves security stuff, as I don't want every user in my application to be able to download all the available reports. </p>
  
  <p>Is it possible right now?</p>