| solved problems running birt for the first time [message #61141] |
Fri, 22 July 2005 10:47 |
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Originally posted by: felipe.hoffa.xxxxxxxxx.com
Last week I tried running BIRT for the first time, and after many
troubleshooting sessions I was able to get it running. I'm posting this
hoping that it can aid anyone else that could be strugling right now.
- First try: Naturally I tried BIRT 1.0.1M1 with eclipse 3.1, GEF 3.1, EMF
2.1.0 and JDK 1.5.0 over Windows XP. It just didn't work.
- Second try: I went a step back and tried BIRT 1.0 with eclipse 3.0.2,
GEF 3.0.1, EMF 2.0.3 over the same system and jdk setup, and it started
working, but I couldn't do charts.
- Third try: I could start producing charts when I moved back to JDK
1.4.2, but I had a recurrent problem with those charts: Every time I
edited it, its width and heigth multiplied by ten, giving me some huge
charts that couldn't be shown or computed given its size.
- Fourth try: I discovered that the problem came from my locale that had
to be changed in Windows XP regionalization properties. The problem was
that in Chile we switch the dot and the comma to format numbers (e.g.
2.500,25) and BIRT didn't respect it at one step, but at the next step it
did (so it wrote 100.0 and then read it as 1000).
Conclusions:
- BIRT has a lot of incompatibility problems with different versions of
the JDK, eclipse, and other libraries. If you don't want trouble stick to
BIRT 1.0, eclipse 3.0 and JDK 1.4.
- Beware of your locale. Switch your OS regionalization to "English (USA)"
to prevent problems until BIRT addresses this.
Next: Now I'll try BIRT with tomcat 4.1.
Best regards,
Felipe Hoffa
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