BiRT Reporting tool and hibernate

sfg · **Joined:** Fri Oct 08, 2004 3:14 am **Posts:** 10

Has anyone managed to get BiRT to recognise hibernates objects?

This would be a powerful union of functionality if so.

Currently we are having to use hibernate to get data, turn it into a CSV and then to load that in BiRT to get desired effects which is not the best answer.

Otherwise we have to drop to SQL to get anything happening which means the time invested in the ORM is wasted.

My thoughts:

Write a JDBC driver for hibernate!!! Everything recognises JDBC.
Write a specific datasource plug-in for BiRT.
Something else?

kgignatyev · **Posted:** Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:18 am

BiRT will provide a way to have custom data source
http://eclipse.org/birt/deploy/#extensions

If you want to use something like that right now you may take a glance at JasperReport and its BeanDataSource, JasperReport works just fine with collections of objects (returned by Hibernate or not) - maybe you should give try that tool a try
http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/tu ... tml#source

sfg · **Joined:** Fri Oct 08, 2004 3:14 am **Posts:** 10

Its not there yet:

The Scripted Data Source (Not yet available.)
The scripted data source and data set elements allow you to access custom data sources directly

Also the only example (a greek guy) is a bit long-winded. Not to be used I think.

I am looking at the source for org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.flatfile which I may be able to create a hibernate driver from.