I've already launched into learning about ODAs for my app, so I'll
definitely keep in touch and contribute back if all goes well. I've
been pushing Cayenne hard and resisting the "it must use Hibernate"
mandate from a couple of companies that I'm working with, and frankly
I think that integrating the BIRT framework into their RCP
applications so they get canned reports AND the ability to compose
their own custom reporting will just amaze.
Kind regards,
Lawrence
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Lawrence Gerstley, Ph.D.
On Nov 26, 2008, at 3:37 AM, Laurent Marchal wrote:
> If you write an ODA driver to integrate Cayenne with BIRT, It would
> be a really nice contribution ! I am really interrested in this, so
> keep us in touch if you do something !
>
> Cheers.
> Laurent
>
> Lawrence Gerstley wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I definitely agree that BIRT+JDBC is nice and simple, and it's
>> really a joy to get started with. The problem is one of
>> generalization: I've spent all of this time using Cayenne to
>> abstract from the physical database, and I only want to do that
>> once. My application can now smoothly move between Oracle, MySQL,
>> and Apache Derby, and Cayenne has work better than I expected to
>> accomplish this. Now, I want to leverage that work so that my
>> reporting can be platform independent as well. Of course, the JDBC
>> connection could be configurable as well, but that's much more
>> opportunity for something to go wrong. The Hibernate example may
>> take me a long way in understanding what to do--thanks for the link!
>>
>> Lawrence
>>
>>
>> On Nov 25, 2008, at 2:03 AM, Laurent Marchal wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am sucessfully using cayenne in a big eclipse RCP application
>>> (25 plugins), we use BIRT chart library to programmatically create
>>> dynamic charts, and we are also integrating some BIRT reports into
>>> the RCP.
>>>
>>> I don't know exaclty what you want to do, but BIRT can't use
>>> Cayenne directly (you will have to develop an ODA driver to bridge
>>> the two), it's possible but i don't see the utility, BIRT + JDBC
>>> is pretty nice and simple.
>>>
>>> You can see an example of BIRT using hibernate as data source
>>> here : http://docs.jboss.org/tools/whatsnew/birt/birt-news-1.0.0.Alpha1.html
>>> https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-2220
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>>
>>> Laurent Marchal
>>>
>>> Andrus Adamchik wrote:
>>>> Hi Lawrence,
>>>>
>>>> Don't recall BIRT being mentioned on this list. You could be the
>>>> first one to try it (?)
>>>>
>>>> Andrus
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 25, 2008, at 3:02 AM, Lawrence Gerstley wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been using Cayenne with great success in making a variety
>>>>> of RCP applications. I'm trying to integrate in BIRT to these
>>>>> applications now, and want to do so without separately
>>>>> specifying JDBC mappings just for BIRT. Has anyone integrated
>>>>> the two together? Especially inside of RCP, but outside would
>>>>> work as well. Any snippets would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Many Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Lawrence
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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