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 < [email protected]> 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 > >
