[birt-dev] Bugzilla 173217 - BIRT Report Delivery Proposal and Patch Rev

[Yip Ng <yipng168@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi birt-dev:

I would like to propose and contribute a new BIRT
functionality in the area of report delivery to the
Eclipse BIRT project.  Report Delivery is a
fundamental
and integral part of reporting.  

Initial proposal is to provide a more extensible
solution for report delivery in BIRT. The solution
should provide some out-of-the-box delivery mechanisms
such as e-mail, ftp, etc. as well as providing the
flexibility for the BIRT developers to customize their
report delivery requirements by defining their
own extensions for report delivery. The custom report
delivery will be provided via Eclipse plug-in
extension point mechanism.

With the delivery extension defined and integrated to
BIRT, it would be relatively easy to provide other
custom report delivery mechanisms such as FTP,
printer, cache, fax, Web Portals, etc.

An initial implementation for the proposal and a mail
delivery extension is supplied with the attachments
along with the proposal document in Bugzilla 173217. 

The changes are based on the latest BIRT CVS HEAD
(v2.2).  Please refer to the proposal document for
further details.
 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=173217

I would appreciate it if someone would review the
proposal and the supplied implementation.

If the proposal is feasible, I would like to continue
improve the implementation and work on testing aspect
of this feature.  Thank you. 


Regards,
Yip Ng



 
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