Eric,
Couple of resources you may want to take a look at.
First, I have several example projects that are in Subversion that show
how to run BIRT. They are described in this
post on BirtWorld. I believe that the birt_api is setup to run
against 2.3.0 now, but there are several report engine libraries
available there.
You may also want to have a look at http://birtworld.blogspot.com/2008/04/testing-and-debug-of-reports.html
In terms of running
the reports from source, it turns out that it is a bit trickier than
you might want. The problem is that ReportEngine code does not have a
source build. What I typically do is get the source build of the
All-In-One package and use that to attach source to the libs in the
ReportEngine. It is a bit painful, but quicker than trying to pull all
of the source. I describe that here.
Finally, if you really want to pull all of the source, I would
recommend using Team Project Sets. I have an article on how to use
Team Project Sets here.
http://birtworld.blogspot.com/2008/09/team-project-sets-for-birt.html
Hope this helps,
Scott
Eric P. Mangold wrote:
Hello gentlemen,
I'm using the Report Engine API to run reports, but I'm getting a
BirtException when I call the run() method on the task.
I have no idea what is causing this exception, and there isn't any
message associated with it.
I would like to run BIRT from source code so that I can see where
exactly the exception is being raised.
I'm following the instructions here:
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/build/buildInstructions.php
the CVS checkout is successful... then I add references to the
necessary birt projects to my project properties.
I try to build my workspace and I get about 50 BILLION errors... no idea why...
I've tried this with Eclipse 3.2 and 3.4.1... using CVS
BIRT_2_3_1_RC1_20080903 and also CVS HEAD.
I'm new to both Java and Eclipse, and at this point I'm completely lost :)
Hoping someone can point me in the right direction...
Thanks in advance,
Eric P. Mangold
_______________________________________________
birt-report-engine-dev mailing list
birt-report-engine-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/birt-report-engine-dev
|