Jasper Report Server operationnotsupportedexception context is read only

1. Environment

Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, jasper-server-5.6-x64, Tomcat 7, MySQL 5

2. Problem Description

When starts Tomcat 7, encounters this always:



3. Analysis:

Jasper server tries to bind sessionfactory to JNDI, but Tomcat 7's JNDI is read only, so the exception occurs.

4. Solution

As reference 1 says: Try adding a file named resfactory.properties under WEB-INF/classes containing the following line:

tbeller.usejndi=false

Meanwhile, attention, please make sure there is no JNDI configuration named 'jdbc/jasperserver' in your Tomcat's server.xml and context.xml, otherwise, you would encounter sessionFactory null error.

5. Reference

5.1 http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/822153/error-closing-context