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. > ----------------------------- > > 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. >
