[birt-pmc] Need to restore preview capability in Ganymede plans

[Michael Fox <foxm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Can we talk about this at Monday's meeting.
  Obviously the earlier in the work plan we can get this work done,
the better.

thanks

        Mike

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Fox/Lexington/IBM on 09/21/2007 09:26 AM -----

Cheng-Yee Lin/Beaverton/IBM

09/20/2007 06:40 PM

To	Michael Fox/Lexington/IBM
cc	Cheng-Yee Lin/Beaverton/IBM@IBMUS
Subject	Preview of BIRT with Eclipse 3.4

Mike,

In the Europa and the prior releases,
BIRT has been relying on the embedded Tomcat server, included by the Eclipse
platform, for its preview capabilities.  The platform had been using
Tomcat (in the org.eclipse.tomcat plugin) for its on-line help utility
previously, and, at Europa, switched to use JeTTy instead.  Because
of the switch, the platform almost removed Tomcat during Europa, but decided
to keep it in Europa since several Eclipse projects depended on it.

As we moved into the Ganymede release,
the platform had the Tomcat plugin removed as its first order of business.
 See the following bug for more details:

        https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=173692

This would force all the Tomcat-dependent
projects (including BIRT) to either switch to JeTTY or look for an alternative
strategy.  Would you be able to check with the BIRT PMC on the target
milestone to have BIRT's preview capability restored?  Obviously,
the earlier this can be done, the sooner we can start porting our current
code to the Ganymede-based IES builds.

Note:  I had just done some experiment
-- I put together an installation with an Eclipse 3.4 nightly build
and all the other 3.3.x-based pieces for EMF/GEF/BIRT.  The
Preview tab of the BIRT report design editor disappeared, so did the Preview/View
As toolbar icon.  So, there is no way to do a preview.  (It is
good in the sense that everything is hidden, so the user would not be clicking
on some button to cause crashes.)  When I pulled the org.eclipse.tomcat
plugin from Eclipse 3.3 and plugged it into the 3.4 installation,
those tab and toolbar icon would show up, and they seem to be working OK
so far.  (Of course, this is not a long-term solution, but we may
be able to get by for a short period of time.)

Thanks,
-- Cheng-Yee