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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/4/16 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>>
>> Are you sure?  I've just been trying it on my machine and both birt
>> and dhis seem to be running in the same JVM (process).  Unless BIRT
>> for some reason forks a new process but that would be very un-java
>> like.
>>
>> I might be wrong as I still haven't got around to the whole report
>> thing (I'd estimate I'm about 35% ploughing through DHIS2).  Is BIRT -
>> as included on DHIS - just a webapp, or does it fire up the whole
>> birt-eclipse thing?  In which case, yes, that would be a new process,
>> so yes, we would need to run in H2 mixed mode.  So yes, you are
>> probably right :-)
>
> Nope, its just an exploded WAR. DHIS writes a report template to the root of
> it. Then the report is requested through an URL which tells BIRT to produce
> it. BIRT will start a connection to the database and populate the report
> with data.
>
> When I tried requesting such a report in embedded mode, it gave me an error
> message saying something like "database is currently being used by another
> thread" (sorry don't remember exactly). I assumed it was caused by the
> single-process limitation. Try it out urself, I've added a demo report in
> the beta lite. If we could come around this (running only embedded) it would
> be nice...:)

OK I'll take a look later.  Where is the beta-lite?

>>
>> As a configuration note, I see that we need to make a
>> $(dhis2.home)/reports directory.
>
> I actually moved the dhis2.home location to install_dir/conf. The reports
> directory (as the documents, importexport) will create itself below this. I
> might have mis-interpreted you here tho...

OK.  I'll try this too :-)  Later.

Cheers
Bob