Just keep in mind that if it goes into a specialpurpose component then
"applications" components can't use it, meaning no embedded reports in
the base applications.
It's a tool and IMO makes most sense in the framework if it's going to
be used in any standard way.
On a side note: I hope the license review has been thorough and
includes ALL jar files needed by BIRT as this was an issue before with
JasperReports and certain other things...
-David
On Nov 10, 2009, at 6:36 AM, Shi Yusen wrote:
This discussion should be on architect level, not function level.
Everybody likes Birt very much.
Personally I think it's a special purpose component and should
use/extend the BI interface.
The BI interface is a great part of v09.04, beside data mining, it
also
makes it easy to set up mappings to build report db (Birt for example)
or create search index (Lucene for example) or etc.
My 2 cents,
Shi Yusen/Beijing Langhua Ltd.
在 2009-11-10二的 13:01 +0700，Hans Bakker写道：
Some general info about Birt.
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This function can be separated in a runtime part and a development
part
The runtime part we want to put in the framework so the reports which
can be developed in Eclipse can be run in OFBiz as an ofbiz report
and
can be used in any component. We especially think about the 'main'
pages where an overview can be given of that component in a graphical
report.
This component allows the retrieval of data through the delegator,
dispatcher or directly from the database (several are supported)
more info can be found at: http://www.eclipse.org/birt/
and we have created some help screens in webtools to get started.
example report:
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/examples/solution/TopSellingProducts.html
Concerning the BI component, yes it could make the reporting there
much
easier, however making use of the BI entities.
Of course there are many other reporting tools, but we think this
one is
pretty good, has an apache compatible license and a nice development
environment in Eclipse and can make use of the OFBiz
delegator/dispatcher. It support several output formats such
spreadsheet, csv and PDF.
