Its been around a little while, we're using it on our project for PDF generation for a desktop application and a web application (Shared engine).
It's pretty powerful (For something thats free), there is a pretty good report designer and it has lots of functionality for working with SQL data sources and crunching data/graphing etc. Beware of the XML datasource stuff though, most all of the examples on using BIRT use SQL as a datasource and the features available for SQL don't match those for XML (you can't pass parameters into a XML datasource). It also has some large runtime requirements of between 10 to 30MB or so, (its not entirely clear what you need to use). And you can embed either its report viewer as a web app with additional features available, or just use the engine to go straight to PDF/Doc/XLS etc. There are two books on the topic, 'A field guide to reporting' and one about deployment, they are well worth buying. Kym wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone used BIRT reporting (eclipse plug-in) with POI? Just > wondering if there were any gotcha's or problems/bugs with this. I'm > starting a huge reporting project and was thinking of using this, I > know it's fairly new, so I wanted to get some dirt on it before I > delve into it. > > Thanks for any input!! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
