Learning of Open Data Access (ODA) Extension Developing

Hi,

can anybody say, how to learn the developing with ODA? I watched the video-tutorials and I bought the book "Integrating and Extending BIRT
Second Edition". The problem is, that the description of the devolpment with ODA is only inaccurate.

Has anybody experience with this topic? Or can anybody say, what i have to do in order to learn the technique?

Thank you very much.

Bye
ManInBlack

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johnw

I have a lot of experience with it. Best way to learn is to go through the examples. I am working on a few articles, and the ODA is one of the topic.

If your looking at the BIRT extension points, I recommend starting with the Aggregation and User Function extensions first before getting into ODA.

ManInBlack

Hi johnw,

thank you very much for your reply. I got it working.
With your help it was possible.

The next point is the deploying of the own oda-driver
on an application server like tomcat. I put the report to
the server root folder, copied the necessary jar files (of the corba platform)
to the lib folder. But at the moment i can´t run the report.
Probably I forgot something.

I think i have to generate a oda-driver jar file? is it right?
Till now i didn´t do that. Have I adjust the web.xml file?

Thank you

Bye
ManInBlack

johnw

To deploy, you will need to export the ODA as a plug-in jar file. The best way to do this is to open up either the Manifest.MF or the plugin.xml file in Eclipse, and in the ovverview tab, follow the export wizard. Once done, copy the resulting JAR file into your deployments /plugins folder. Depending on how you build your plugin, your dependent JARs should be included.