[jbosstools-dev] Re: JBoss BIRT Integration and org.hibernate.eclipse

[Snjezana Peco]

Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> Lets take this on the dev list ;)
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>> In order to include the BIRT Hibernate ODA data source/data set in a
>> BIRT/Seam web project, I need the org.hibernate.eclipse plugin (BIRT web
>> project creates an Eclipse configuration in WEB-INF/platform including a
>> minimal set of non-UI plugins).
>>     
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> Sorry for my ignorance, but what is WEB-INF/platform ? A BIRT thing ?
>
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Yes. BIRT web project creates WEB-INF/platform.

> Does BIRT really require Eclipse plugins to run !?
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Yes.
> We don't want to inject our internal plugins into users deployments do we ?
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>> However, org.hibernate.eclipse depends
>> on org.eclipse.jface and org.eclipse.ui.console. This dependency is
>> related to log4j only (KnownConfigurations and PluginLogAppender). Can
>> we remove this depencency? We could try to move logging to the
>> org.hibernate.eclipse.console plugin, for instance.
>>     
>
> What parts do you (as the BIRT plugin) actually need,
> and what parts does the user need (as in his BIRT application) ?
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The hibernate ODA data source requires a hibernate session factory.

Snjeza