| A few easy questions about your experience with BIRT [message #47693] |
Fri, 17 June 2005 14:57 |
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Originally posted by: tsakpinisd.saic.com
To quote a co-worker, "we'd like to be able to run a BIRT report in
response to a web service invocation. Basically a session bean would call
a BIRT API and then send the HTML report stream back to the client." In
that vein, I have a couple of questions for experienced users. Of course,
I'm currently experimenting with it myself, as well, but I'm interested in
what you all have to say doing "real-life" work. Here are the questions:
1) Would you say that BIRT is "ready for prime-time"? That is, is it
stable or does it crash a couple times a day and irritate everyone. Using
early versions of Windows in the early '90s got me in the habit of saving
very frequently, but still, it is a pain to have to re-start an
application or re-boot several times a day.
2) Are the results accurate or do you have to spend a lot of time
tweaking them to get what you *really* want? Is BIRT pretty good or would
I be better off just churning out the HTML myself?
3) How about performance? We are using fairly decent Windows boxes,
although we may go to Linix. Is BIRT relatively fast or do you use the
time BIRT is "thinking" to get better acquainted with your co-workers?
Any info or advice you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!
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| Re: A few easy questions about your experience with BIRT [message #47753 is a reply to message #47693] |
Fri, 17 June 2005 12:37  |
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Hi Dimitrie
i have not use BIRT in heavy-procuction but i think that can add some
comments here
"Dimitrie Tsakpinis" <tsakpinisd@saic.com> wrote in message
news:446ff9c0ea1dbecf579d54870f033da3$1@www.eclipse.org...
> To quote a co-worker, "we'd like to be able to run a BIRT report in
> response to a web service invocation. Basically a session bean would call
> a BIRT API and then send the HTML report stream back to the client." In
> that vein, I have a couple of questions for experienced users. Of course,
> I'm currently experimenting with it myself, as well, but I'm interested in
> what you all have to say doing "real-life" work. Here are the questions:
>
> 1) Would you say that BIRT is "ready for prime-time"? That is, is it
> stable or does it crash a couple times a day and irritate everyone. Using
> early versions of Windows in the early '90s got me in the habit of saving
> very frequently, but still, it is a pain to have to re-start an
> application or re-boot several times a day.
Viewer is a simple enough web-app so i think you will not have this kind of
problems. But i have not test BIRT in real-have case, so i can not give you
a clear answer
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> 2) Are the results accurate or do you have to spend a lot of time
> tweaking them to get what you *really* want?
I can say "yes they are", in some milstones i have some problems with
designer but even reports does not work accurate under designer, it has no
problem in viewer. (the same .rptdesign)
>Is BIRT pretty good or would I be better off just churning out the HTML
>myself?
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it will be faster to work with BIRT
> 3) How about performance? We are using fairly decent Windows boxes,
> although we may go to Linix. Is BIRT relatively fast or do you use the
> time BIRT is "thinking" to get better acquainted with your co-workers?
>
> Any info or advice you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!
>
>
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