[udig-devel] BIRT Charts and Integration ideas

[Vince Darley]

At 17:30 03/12/2007, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>My goal would be in integrate udig with BIRT charts in my own branded RCP
>>application.
>Nice; how is your experience with BIRT charts going? I have been 
>thinking of making an abstract ReportOp that has the task of 
>creating an html report and opening up in the web browser editor.
>Are you thinking of using the BIRT chart controls live in a view? Or 
>even more cool would be live on the Map using a MapGraphic...  I 
>should also point out that with Jesse's new ApplicationGIS utility 
>method you should actually be able to integrate map and selection 
>output into a normal BIRT report.

FYI: We've written a customer BIRT report element which provides a 
"Map" in the BIRT report designer.  This can be dragged onto a 
report, sized appropriately, etc.  When the report is rendered (pdf, 
html, etc) a Map is drawn.  Extension point mechanisms are then used 
to allow other code to filter/bound what is drawn in the reported map.

This all works fairly well.  Eurobios would be more than happy to 
make this code available as a community plugin.

[This is nothing to do with BIRT charts, though, just BIRT reporting 
in general]

cheers,

Vince.

Note: BIRT's report element extension mechanisms/Java API are 
unfortunately very poorly documented and fairly poorly designed, at 
least in terms of the vast amount of boilerplate code one must 
provide to enable such basic things as having the user able to resize 
the map in the report.


Vince Darley
CEO, Eurobios UK Ltd
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