Friday, May 23, 2008

Designing High Performance BIRT Reports

Over the last couple of months BIRT-Exchange has hosted many webinars explaining and demonstrating BIRT technology. Last weeks webinar featured Mica Block discussing BIRT performance. In this presentation, Mica explains how to gauge performance and provides tips for improving generation time. If you missed it or any of the others, they are available
here.

In addition the following topics will be discussed in the future:

5/30/2008
Using the BIRT Report Engine API
Virgil Dodson

6/13/2008
Using the BIRT Design Engine API
Jason Weathersby

6/27/2008
What's New with BIRT 2.3
Virgil Dodson

7/11/2008
Ad-hoc BIRT Reporting for End Users
Rob Murphy

7/25/2008
BIRT Charting Primer
Virgil Dodson

8/8/2008
Using the BIRT Chart API
Jason Weathersby
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9 comments:

  1. piyush2:06 AM

    Hello friends,
    I am creating reports using BIRT
    in which I hv added Data Source,Data Sets & Report parameters,but after adding report Parameters i am unable to poen My Data set, i got an exception ...
    An unexpected internal exception occurred. Please see log for detail.
    Plug-in Provider:Eclipse.org
    Plug-in Name:BIRT Designer UI
    Plug-in ID:org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.ui
    Version:2.2.2.r222_v20071226
    Error Code:Error.GUIException.invokedByUnexpectedException
    Error Message:Caused by org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.oda.OdaException.

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  2. Jason Weathersby12:50 PM

    Piyush,

    Can you log a bugzilla entry with the error you are getting and post your report.

    Thanks

    Jason

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  3. Anonymous11:26 AM

    help me please
    I am creating reports in birt but export my report in pdf not show me all information is problem of cofiguration of the birt?

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  4. Unknown1:29 PM

    hello
    im using birt report in developing project reports with highly quantity of data ; i didnt use api i just use birt viewer and birt designer and i depend on data binding . i have great problem that may make my decision to change birt reporting this problem is the slow and bad performance of running birt report. my project is spring mvc and birt report viewer load great deal of scripts and takes about 3 to 5 minuits to load report i dont no what to do i increased memory size and java heap and no way still slow and huge reports make my server dies
    i wish quick response thanks
    toba sayed - senior java programmer

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  5. Jason Weathersby5:26 PM

    Toba,

    Can you open a bug for this and post your report design to it?

    Jason

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  6. toba5:02 AM

    no bug but its the problem of birt performance exactly the birt viewr performance in case of huge data

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  7. Anonymous8:03 AM

    Hi me too have a performance issue.If anyody can explain me please.Using aggrgation based calculation makes a report slower?
    And if we used lot of(IF-Else ) in our report codinng ,it will affect the performance/

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  8. Jason Weathersby6:09 PM

    Can you email me an example that shows the issue?

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  9. Anonymous8:16 AM

    hello,

    I have data (text) obtained from database. This text contains html tags. Have could I display this text as html, instead of plain text please? I dont see such an option for "data" items.

    thanks

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