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| Orphans, widows, absolute position, null pointer... we give up and move to Jasper [message #251421] |
Tue, 07 August 2007 05:01  |
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Originally posted by: matteo.tocchetti.exadata.it
We are a small software company, estabilished about 20 years ago,
working mostly with Java/Eclipse. We dedicated three people part time
for a month studing Birt and then we decided to give up and use Jasper.
I'm writing this post to help other people that, like us, are looking
for a solution to produce printed documents.
Maybe we are wrong, but we are used to try new technologies and we based
our experience on the two available manuals and on a reasonable amount
of days dedicated by professional programmers to Birt.
Birt is a nice product to produce tablar report, but it cannot:
- Place elements in an absolute position on a piece of paper
- Fix the maximum size of controls
Moreover we had many other problems, that maybe could be managed if we
insisted:
Manage orphans, widows or "page break inside" in an effective way
Page totals
Do a true resize by dragging (e.g. when you nest tables...)
Debugging of java script
Strange behaviour when you change the data structure (e.g. change a
field name)
Avoid frequent messages like "Java null pointer exception" in report design.
If you need to print complex report, download and try Jasper along with
Birt.
MT
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| Re: Orphans, widows, absolute position, null pointer... we give up and move to Jasper [message #251663 is a reply to message #251421] |
Wed, 08 August 2007 09:48  |
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Salve, devo dire che sono un po in disaccordo a riguardo, entrambi hanno dei
pro e contro.
Abbiamo appenda provato BIRT creando dei report molto complessi ma devo dire
che non abbiamo
riscontrato problemi. Il Jasper ha una impostazione diversa orientata vs una
pagina con header e footer,
mentre il BIRT segue una logica tipo pagina html.
Nel Jasper ci sono molti esempi da seguire, meno invece nel BIRT.
Noi abbiamo scelto di usare entrambi.
Saluti
RG
"Matteo Tocchetti" <matteo.tocchetti@exadata.it> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:f99cck$dt8$1@build.eclipse.org...
> We are a small software company, estabilished about 20 years ago, working
> mostly with Java/Eclipse. We dedicated three people part time for a month
> studing Birt and then we decided to give up and use Jasper.
>
> I'm writing this post to help other people that, like us, are looking for
> a solution to produce printed documents.
>
> Maybe we are wrong, but we are used to try new technologies and we based
> our experience on the two available manuals and on a reasonable amount of
> days dedicated by professional programmers to Birt.
>
> Birt is a nice product to produce tablar report, but it cannot:
> - Place elements in an absolute position on a piece of paper
> - Fix the maximum size of controls
>
>
> Moreover we had many other problems, that maybe could be managed if we
> insisted:
> Manage orphans, widows or "page break inside" in an effective way
> Page totals
> Do a true resize by dragging (e.g. when you nest tables...)
> Debugging of java script
> Strange behaviour when you change the data structure (e.g. change a field
> name)
> Avoid frequent messages like "Java null pointer exception" in report
> design.
>
> If you need to print complex report, download and try Jasper along with
> Birt.
> MT
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| Re: Orphans, widows, absolute position, null pointer... we give up and move to J [message #258533 is a reply to message #251668] |
Tue, 16 October 2007 19:41 |
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Originally posted by: jcm62.columbia.edu
For those interested, I put the previous post through the Google
Translation tool (http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en). The
results were pretty good. My apologies to the original author in the
case there are errors here.
Hello, I must say that I am somewhat in disagreement about it, both have
Pros and cons.
We tried hangs BIRT reports creating very complex but I have to say
Not that we
Problems found. The Jasper has a different approach - oriented vs. a
Page header and footer,
While the BIRT follows a logical type html page.
In Jasper, there are many examples to follow, rather less in BIRT.
We have chosen to use both.
Greetings
RG
Cristian wrote:
> Could you please translate into English for the rest of us who don't
> know Italian and might be interested in your post?
>
> Thank you,
> Cristian
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