This Blog shows how to build your own Bundle-Repository Step one: create a directory with the following structure containing the bundle files in sub-directory plugins. <directory-name> features plugins Step two: create a file named category.xml in the directory. Contents of category.xml: <?xml version=»1.0″ encoding=»UTF-8″?> <site> <category-def name=»all» label=»P2 Batik 1.13 Weiterlesen…
So this was quite a journey! Things i would love to see resolved: Upgrade Tycho from 1.4 to 2.2+ resolved! Upgrade Jetty from 9.4.15 to 11.x. Upgrade the outdated JSPC-Plugin to a Version matching the Jetty-Release resolved! Upgrade MongoDB Java Driver to 3.12 resolved!
Antrun Plugin As this is needed for native2ascii to work anyway, it is preferable to use the same Version in the whole Project. In the Root-POM (location: birt) add to the properties-Section: <antrun.version>3.0.0</antrun.version> This Maven-Property is going to be used throughout the whole build environment. In all POM-Files with the Weiterlesen…
As of Eclipse IDE 2020-12, the JDK minimum requirement is JDK11. Also, BIRT-Components like RCP Report Designer do not work with JDK-Releases higher JDK8. So essentially, we want two things: First: change the build environment from JDK8 to JDK11 Second: make sure BIRT runs with JDK11+ I probably going to Weiterlesen…
In the official BIRT-Releases, the standalone Birt RCP Report Designer is provided only for the windows environment. One might wonder the reasoning behind this decision. We are going to change this. There are two POM-Files where additional environments may be defined: The Project’s Root-POM The POM in build/birt-packages/birt-runtime-osgi Add the Weiterlesen…
BIRT uses Apache Batik, particularly for the SVG Image format. So let’s upgrade to the newest Apache Batik version (being 1.13 at the time of writing). While newer Apache Batik Bundles are available on Orbit, not consistently so. At the time of writing, not all 1.13 Batik jar’s are available Weiterlesen…
In this Blog, i will show what steps are required to replace the PDF-Library used in BIRT. Incredibly enough, BIRT uses iText 2.1.7 which dates back to 2009. OpenPDF comes in very handy as it is a fork from iText4 and claims to be (and proved so in this project) Weiterlesen…
The Document Emitters in BIRT use the Apache POI library 3.9 and this version dates back to 2012. Updating this to a actual version (i.e 4.x) requires two steps: Step 1: get newer POI-Bundles from Eclipse Orbit. I got Apache POI 4.1.1 here: Eclipse Orbit Composite Site R20201130205003 Step 2: Weiterlesen…