Need advise about the BIRT in OFBIZ

[guo weizhan]

Hi All,

The mail List reminds me I should continue to do the integration with
BIRT and OFBIZ, I submit one issue before, URL:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1348, and want to make
some improving about this, the goal is not changed" let the user can
develop the Report or BI more easily and efficiently". And is there
any confliction with the OFBIZ BI component? Can let BIRT as the
"plug-in" to this component? Any advice is welcome.

Thank you!

Weizhan Guo

[Jacques Le Roux]

IIRW the main concern was the size of BIRT. Could be dowloaded from advice in OPTIONAL_LIBRARIES
There is currently also a will to use outside libraries (GPL, etc.) by downloading them automatically from ant. See discussion these
last days

Jacques

From: "guo weizhan" <[hidden email]>

> Hi All,
>
> The mail List reminds me I should continue to do the integration with
> BIRT and OFBIZ, I submit one issue before, URL:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1348, and want to make
> some improving about this, the goal is not changed" let the user can
> develop the Report or BI more easily and efficiently". And is there
> any confliction with the OFBIZ BI component? Can let BIRT as the
> "plug-in" to this component? Any advice is welcome.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Weizhan Guo
>

[David E Jones-3]

The main issue is the license IMO, size only matters so much. Another  
issue is making everyone learn another toolset for reports. Right now  
in OFBiz you can do printed or HTML reports using the same toolset  
(Screen Widget, Form Widget, FTL, Groovy) as any other page. Reports  
aren't that special... just a page or document that shows information  
from the database like nearly any other page or document in the  
system. This is no good for ad-hoc reporting, so external tools are  
common for that still (for organizations that do ad-hoc reporting that  
is...).

-David


On Dec 19, 2008, at 3:30 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

> IIRW the main concern was the size of BIRT. Could be dowloaded from  
> advice in OPTIONAL_LIBRARIES
> There is currently also a will to use outside libraries (GPL, etc.)  
> by downloading them automatically from ant. See discussion these  
> last days
>
> Jacques
>
> From: "guo weizhan" <[hidden email]>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> The mail List reminds me I should continue to do the integration with
>> BIRT and OFBIZ, I submit one issue before, URL:
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1348, and want to make
>> some improving about this, the goal is not changed" let the user can
>> develop the Report or BI more easily and efficiently". And is there
>> any confliction with the OFBIZ BI component? Can let BIRT as the
>> "plug-in" to this component? Any advice is welcome.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Weizhan Guo
>

[guo weizhan]

What's the different between Apache license and EPL? I thought them
almost the same....
And ofbiz need a more powerful report tools indeed, what the report of
client need is "colorful", they need bar, chart and more.

2008/12/20 David E Jones <[hidden email]>:

>
> The main issue is the license IMO, size only matters so much. Another issue
> is making everyone learn another toolset for reports. Right now in OFBiz you
> can do printed or HTML reports using the same toolset (Screen Widget, Form
> Widget, FTL, Groovy) as any other page. Reports aren't that special... just
> a page or document that shows information from the database like nearly any
> other page or document in the system. This is no good for ad-hoc reporting,
> so external tools are common for that still (for organizations that do
> ad-hoc reporting that is...).
>
> -David
>
>
> On Dec 19, 2008, at 3:30 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>
>> IIRW the main concern was the size of BIRT. Could be dowloaded from advice
>> in OPTIONAL_LIBRARIES
>> There is currently also a will to use outside libraries (GPL, etc.) by
>> downloading them automatically from ant. See discussion these last days
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>> From: "guo weizhan" <[hidden email]>
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> The mail List reminds me I should continue to do the integration with
>>> BIRT and OFBIZ, I submit one issue before, URL:
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1348, and want to make
>>> some improving about this, the goal is not changed" let the user can
>>> develop the Report or BI more easily and efficiently". And is there
>>> any confliction with the OFBIZ BI component? Can let BIRT as the
>>> "plug-in" to this component? Any advice is welcome.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Weizhan Guo
>>
>
>