[udig-devel] BIRT Charts and Integration ideas

[Andrea Antonello]

Hi, excuse my late reply.
As Adrian states, we from JGrass made a first approach some time ago  
using the birth charting mechanism for the plotting of data. It is  
different from what you did for the report.
We were not so happy with it, since te perfomance is very low in the  
case of charts with loads of data, which are very common in scientific  
environments, so I think we will discard that one.
JFreechart has now a native SWT support and the demos look perfect as  
they were in the swing environment, so I'm pretty sure, we will step  
back to that one.  I will just need to test some cases for stability.

Obviously, as any other on this list, I'm looking forward to see the  
birt integrated reporting plugin, that will be a great enhancement!  
Good Eurobios guys, my compliments!

Andrea



On Dec 3, 2007, at 6:43 PM, Vince Darley wrote:

> 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
> Tel: +44 207 921 0445
> Mobile: +44 794 154 8527
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>
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