yes, FOP will always be available. Jacopo
On Mar 27, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Foo Shyn Chung wrote: > Hi Jacopo, > > Thanx for the clarification. Does that means FOP will always be available > in the trunk release of future OFBiz? > > Thanx > FooShyn > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Jacopo Cappellato < > jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com> wrote: > >> Hi FooShyn, >> >> there is no plan to deprecate the usage of FOP: several important >> documents (like "order confirmation", "invoice" etc...) are currently >> implemented in FOP. >> >> As a side note: nothing official at the moment, but the OFBiz community is >> currently discussing the decision to separate Birt from the OFBiz codebase >> and isolate it into an optional/separate component (together with the Birt >> reports currently available). >> However this will only affect the trunk and future releases (since or >> after 12.04). >> The hope is that having a small but dedicated community to manage the Birt >> component for OFBiz will help to keep the integration up to date; this is >> part of a larger plan to create an ecosystem of OFBiz components (like Birt >> but hopefully other reporting tools like JasperReports) that can be >> downloaded and plugged into OFBiz. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Jacopo >> >> >> On Mar 27, 2012, at 7:57 AM, Foo Shyn Chung wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I noticed that in Ofbiz reporting are either done using Birt or fo.ftl. >> I'm >>> a bit confused in which one should i use to work on my report. Does Ofbiz >>> endorse using fo.ftl further or will Ofbiz continue be using Birt (and >>> update the Birt library) in the future? >>> >>> Any pointer or advice? >>> >>> Thanx >>> FooShyn >> >>
