Hans,
there is a lot of redundancy with jars we have in OFBiz with the jars
in:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/addbirt/framework/birt/lib/platform/plugins/
Are all of them needed? I think we have to resolve this, and not only
because this will greatly increase the download time.
Jacopo
On Nov 10, 2009, at 7:01 AM, Hans Bakker wrote:
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.
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