[news.eclipse.birt.usability] Re: Excel and Word emitters

[Scott Rosenbaum <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Jim,

We have been working on the Word and Excel emitters for almost a year now. 
The new emitters were developed by a new team of developers and it was only 
in the most recent build that the two lines of code were synchronized and 
the appropriate testing was added.  That is why you will see that the code 
is marked as proposed (or something like that).  

So will they be ready for prime time when we release with Europa?  According 
to the dev and QA teams, everything looks like we are on target. 

Hope this helps,

Scott Rosenbaum

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently reviewing different reporting options, I've looked at
> Crystal Reports, Jasper Reports, JFreeReport and BIRT. BIRT seems to
> win hands down for my requirements, with one exception. I absolutely
> have to have excel and word emitters. I see that these are pegged to
> be released at the end of June, I'm trying to gauge the likelihood of
> this release being met. Does the BIRT project tend to deliver expected
> features on time?
>
> Any input here would be greatly appreciated as I'd love to use this
> project.