jasper reports and jsf web page

    public void downloadStatement(FacesContext facesContext, java.io.OutputStream outputStream) {
        
        Long statementRowId = (Long)EL.get("#{requestScope.statementRowId}");
        //Approach 1 - getResourceAsStream() - will look in all classpath entires for the specified file. For this the report was aaded as a jar
        //InputStream ios = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("StatementReport.jrxml");
        //end approach 1
        //Approach 2 - this will only look in the spcific folder
        try {
            ExternalContext externalContext = javax.faces.context.FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext();
            ServletContext servletContext = (ServletContext) externalContext.getContext();
            String webContentRoot = servletContext.getRealPath("/");
            _logger.fine("WebContentRoot is : " + webContentRoot);
            String path = new File(".").getAbsolutePath();
            _logger.fine("Absolute Path :" + path);
            File reportsDir = new File(webContentRoot + "\\com\\xxx\\ui\\reports\\JasperReport.jrxml");
            InputStream ios = new FileInputStream(reportsDir);
            //end Approach 2
            Map parameters = new HashMap();
            parameters.put("PAR_CUSTOMER_ID", customerId.toString());
            parameters.put("SUBREPORT_DIR", "./");
            parameters.put("rowid", statementRowId.toString());
            Connection connection = null;       
            HttpServletResponse response =  (HttpServletResponse)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getResponse();
            ServletOutputStream servletOutputStream;
            servletOutputStream = response.getOutputStream();
            byte[] bytes = null;
            //this will give us the existing connection from the AM
            ob = bc.getOperationBinding("getCurrentConnection");
            ob.execute();
            connection = (Connection)ob.getResult();
            //This will create a new connection alltogether.
            /* Context ctx = new InitialContext();
            Context envCtx = (Context)ctx.lookup("");
            DataSource ds = (DataSource)envCtx.lookup("jdbc/lm");
            if (ds != null) {
                    connection = ds.getConnection();
            }  */
            JasperDesign jasperDesign = JRXmlLoader.load(ios);
            JasperReport jasperReport =   JasperCompileManager.compileReport(jasperDesign);
            bytes = JasperRunManager.runReportToPdf(jasperReport, parameters,  connection);
            response.addHeader("Content-disposition",  "attachment;filename=OnlineStatement.pdf");
            response.setContentType("application/pdf");
            response.setContentLength(bytes.length);
            servletOutputStream.write(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
            servletOutputStream.flush();
            servletOutputStream.close();
            facesContext.responseComplete();
        }catch (IOException e) {
            _logger.severe("IOException", e);
            e.printStackTrace();
        }catch (JRException e) {
            _logger.severe("JRException", e);
            e.printStackTrace();
        }catch(Exception e){
            _logger.severe("Exception", e);
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

            response.setContentType("application/pdf");
            response.setContentLength(bytes.length);
            servletOutputStream.write(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
            servletOutputStream.flush();
            servletOutputStream.close();
            facesContext.responseComplete();