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

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

Lets take this on the dev list ;)

> 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).

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is WEB-INF/platform ? A BIRT thing ?

Does BIRT really require Eclipse plugins to run !?

We don't want to inject our internal plugins into users deployments do we ?

> 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) ?

-max