No preview on BIRT OXYGEN Report Developer-Problem with Build [message #1778890] |
Fri, 22 December 2017 23:52 |
Dianne Evans Messages: 5 Registered: February 2017 |
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I am not able to preview reports in BIRT.
I received confirmation from Kronos TeleStaff support (who is recommending that we use BIRT for custom reports) that it is a problem with the build when using the latest Eclipse Oxygen on Windows 10.
"When you preview it, Eclypse will generate this error: Exception:java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/jetty/util/Decorator at org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer.utilities.ViewerWebApp.start(ViewerWebApp.java:40) at org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer.utilities.AppServerWrapper.startJettyServer(AppServerWrapper.java:256) at org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer.utilities.AppServerWrapper.start(AppServerWrapper.java:155) at org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer.utilities.WebappAccessor.start(WebappAccessor.java:72) at org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer.utilities.WebViewer.startWebApp(WebViewer.java:827) at org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer.utilities.WebViewer.display(WebViewer.java:1078) at org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer.utilities.WebViewer.display(WebViewer.java:1073) at org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.ui.actions.PreviewSupport.preview(PreviewSupport.java:402) at org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.ui.actions.PreviewSupport$3.widgetSelected(PreviewSupport.java:245) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:249) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:86) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:4428) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1079) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4238) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3817) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$5.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1150) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:336) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1039) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:153) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.lambda$3(Workbench.java:680) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:336) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:594) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:148) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:151) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:134) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:104) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:388) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:243) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(null:-2) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(null:-1) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(null:-1) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(null:-1) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:653) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:590) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1499) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.jetty.util.Decorator cannot be found by org.eclipse.jetty.servlet_9.4.5.v20170502 I have uploaded the full stack trace in the attached file : eclipse error.txt.
It looks like the latest org.eclipse.jetty.servlet_9.4.5.v20170502, they have have removed the class org.eclipse.jetty.util.Decorator. "
[Updated on: Wed, 27 December 2017 16:13] Report message to a moderator
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Re: No preview on BIRT OXYGEN Report Developer-Problem with Build [message #1784064 is a reply to message #1784032] |
Thu, 22 March 2018 08:29 |
Jeffrey Zelt Messages: 7 Registered: January 2018 |
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I realize that we, as BIRT users, have a certain responsibility to report bugs if we expect to have them fixed by the BIRT developers. But the problem reported here in this topic describes a complete inability to use BIRT in the Eclipse Oxygen release for report development. I cannot believe that BIRT developers can be unaware of this problem.
What this actually looks like, and I am not an advocate of conspiracy theories, is that there is no BIRT development at the moment. It seems that the main sponsor, Actuate, has pulled the plug on development. All of their online resources are either dead links or redirect to useless pages.
I really, really hope that this is not the beginning of a long slow death of BIRT because it is a very powerful and useful reporting platform. It does not need a large numer of new bells and whistles, but it does need to be updated continually to run in the most recent Eclipse distributions; otherwise, no companies will choose BIRT for future reporting needs.
I can see that the master branch in the BIRT GitHub repository does mention the next version of Eclipse (4.8 - Photon), but it is not clear to me if there is still serious development work being performed on BIRT:
https://github.com/eclipse/birt/tree/master
Does anyone know if BIRT is currently being developed and whether we should expect it to work with Eclipse 4.8 (Photon)?
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Re: No preview on BIRT OXYGEN Report Developer-Problem with Build [message #1784626 is a reply to message #1778890] |
Fri, 30 March 2018 17:16 |
Mat Booth Messages: 1 Registered: March 2018 |
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Someone in the IRC channel had some insight on this, but was unable to post to the forums:
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[18:10:07] <laidback_01> perhaps someone else can post this... the ticket of concern is : https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1090767/
[18:10:24] <laidback_01> I can't use Preview either. Don't care. I have a workaround that's perfect
[18:10:46] <laidback_01> the workaround is to install the viewer as http://wiki.eclipse.org/BirtPOJO_Viewer_Tomcat_Deployment
[18:11:23] <laidback_01> and put my project into a git repo. I then have the tomcat dir under the birt/ directory be a clone of that repo
[18:11:32] <laidback_01> root cron pulls repo every minute
[18:11:57] * jmaury1 has quit (Quit: Leaving.)
[18:12:22] <laidback_01> it's crude, but i get to see the real deal, it's a production replicat - ideal for me. Has the side affect of forcing me to commit MUCH more often than I normally would, which is a good thing for me.
[18:12:56] <laidback_01> anyway, it works a charm, I can use the latest build of Oxygen, let Eclipse update itself, I don't worry about BIRT, it just works, etc, etc.
[18:13:13] <mbooth> laidback_01: I can post this, with a pointer to the IRC channel if they need further help of course :-)
[18:14:22] <laidback_01> okay, cool. I'm on linux, presumably this will work regardless of O/S, but i've not tested on windows or anything. I dev in linux, deploy to FreeBSD
Feel free to join the conversation in the #eclipse channel on Freenode.
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Re: No preview on BIRT OXYGEN Report Developer-Problem with Build [message #1802764 is a reply to message #1778890] |
Fri, 15 February 2019 10:18 |
johnsam iuytre Messages: 1 Registered: February 2019 |
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I cannot believe that BIRT developers can be unaware of this problem.
What this actually looks like, and I am not an advocate of conspiracy theories, is that there is no BIRT development at the moment. It seems that the main sponsor, Actuate, has pulled the plug on development. All of their online resources are either dead links or redirect to useless pages.
I really, really hope that this is not the beginning of a long slow death of BIRT because it is a very powerful and useful reporting platform. It does not need a large numer of new bells and whistles, but it does need to be updated continually to run in the most recent Eclipse distributions; otherwise, no companies will choose BIRT for future reporting needs. kissanime.vip
[Updated on: Thu, 28 February 2019 07:37] Report message to a moderator
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Re: No preview on BIRT OXYGEN Report Developer-Problem with Build [message #1803196 is a reply to message #1802764] |
Mon, 25 February 2019 08:40 |
Jeffrey Zelt Messages: 7 Registered: January 2018 |
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I agree with your assessment and I share your concern. We can only live in hope at this point, which is not a good feeling.
johnsam iuytre wrote on Fri, 15 February 2019 10:18What this actually looks like, and I am not an advocate of conspiracy theories, is that there is no BIRT development at the moment. It seems that the main sponsor, Actuate, has pulled the plug on development. All of their online resources are either dead links or redirect to useless pages.
I really, really hope that this is not the beginning of a long slow death of BIRT because it is a very powerful and useful reporting platform. It does not need a large numer of new bells and whistles, but it does need to be updated continually to run in the most recent Eclipse distributions; otherwise, no companies will choose BIRT for future reporting needs.
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