Architecture of BIRT 3.7

kosta

Hello BIRT admins and moderators and anyone else of course,

I saw that the new version of BIRT doesnt have the plug-ins folder because BIRT API doesn't uses OSGI any more.

What was the Idea about that? Why does the chages came now?
Will be there in future two different version of BIRT (the 2.6.2 and 3.7 branch) or only one?
Does the future versions of BIRT API use OSGI or not?

For any answers or links thanks in advance.

JasonW

Kosta,

If you are using the BIRT framework plugins, like in a RCP they are still in plug-in format. This only affects the runtime download and was changed to help with classpath issues that result when deploying BIRT to web based applications. The new POJO runtime will still use BIRT extension plugins if you export them using the manifest editor as usual. Say you develop an ODA you can export it and copy the runtime plugin to the web-inf/lib directory and it should still work. If your plugin contains jars, they have to be removed from the runtime plugin and put in the web-inf/lib as well. With the new runtime you should see a significant performance increase in the BIRT API startup time as well.

Jason