| Best way to embed BIRT in an RCP [message #143185] |
Sat, 11 March 2006 11:32 |
 Peter Kliem
Messages: 35
Registered: July 2009 |
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Hi,
I'm about to use BIRT (great work!) in an RCP. I'm wondering what is the
best way to embed BIRT if you want to enable your users to design
reports and simply use them.
I thought of a bunch of data source libraries using POJOs (scripted ds)
to access the local data model (all data will be available in memory,
there will not necessarily be a JDBC datasource available) and the use
the internal (help) webserver to access the reports. I'm having the
difficulty with this, that I would have to reproduce my application's
classes in the WEB-INF of the viewer to make them accessible for BIRT
(or do I not? solutions?). The datasource definition and the report
design suffers from a missing preview (AFAIK).
So I am not happy with this. Second thought is doing local XML-Exports
for the datasources and I think this will be the way I am going to try.
This of course limits drill down capabilities (or makes them more
complicated) and yields masses of temp files on the user's disk.
Another problem I'm facing is which plugins to include in the RCP for
enabling users to design reports? I tried the hard way ending up with
SDK-Menus (Debug and so on) in my RCP.
Any ideas on this? Pointers to documentation on this topic?
Thanks
Peter
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