yes, FOP will always be available.
Jacopo
On Mar 27, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Foo Shyn Chung wrote:
> 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 <
>
[hidden email]> 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
>>
>>
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