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| <p class="head">BIRT FAQ</p> |
| <p class="subhead">Limitations</p> |
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| <h1>Browser Limitations</h1> |
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| BIRT follows the |
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/">W3C CSS 2.1</a> standards. However, |
| Microsoft IE follows a subset |
| of these standards. The following table shows the limitations within BIRT due |
| to limitations of browser and of |
| <a href="http://xml.apache.org/fop/">Apache FOP</a>. |
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| <td>Property<td>Internet Explorer<td>Firefox 1.0<td>Apache FOP |
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| <td>Grid.padding*<br>Table.padding* |
| <td>Not supported in BIRT 1.0 |
| <td>Not supported in BIRT 1.0 |
| <td>Not supported in BIRT 1.0 |
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| <td>Column.padding* |
| <td>Not supported in BIRT 1.0 |
| <td>Not supported in BIRT 1.0 |
| <td>Not supported in BIRT 1.0 |
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| <td>Row.padding* |
| <td>Not supported in BIRT 1.0 |
| <td>Not supported in BIRT 1.0 |
| <td>Not supported in BIRT 1.0 |
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| <td>Cell.padding* |
| <td>Supported |
| <td>Supported |
| <td>Supported |
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| <td>Grid.border*<br>Table.border* |
| <td>Supported |
| <td>Supported |
| <td>Supported |
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| <td>Column.border* |
| <td>Not supported by browser,<br>Not supported by BIRT 1.0 |
| <td>Supported by browser,<br>Not supported by BIRT 1.0 |
| <td>Supported by FO,<br>Not supported by BIRT 1.0 |
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| <td>Row.border* |
| <td>Not supported by browser,<br>Not supported by BIRT 1.0 |
| <td>Supported by browser,<br>Not supported by BIRT 1.0 |
| <td>Not supported by FO,<br>Not supported by BIRT 1.0 |
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| <td>Cell.border* |
| <td>Supported |
| <td>Supported |
| <td>Supported |
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| <h1>Eclipse 3.1</h1> |
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| <h2>Q: Does BIRT support Eclipse 3.1?</h2> |
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| Not yet. Some users have said that they've gotten it to work with the 3.1 |
| milestone or preview builds, but the BIRT team does not yet test with |
| Eclipse 3.1. If you try BIRT on Eclipse 3.1, and find problems, please report |
| them via <a href="../community.html">Bugzilla</a> so the team can fix them.</p> |
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| <h1>App Servers</h1> |
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| <h2>Q: What versions of Tomcat does BIRT support?</h2> |
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| <p>BIRT is certified with Tomcat 4.1.30. BIRT is not certified, and |
| known problems exist, with the Tomcat 5.0 and 5.5 releases, though these will be |
| fixed before BIRT 1.0 ships.</p> |
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| <h1>General</h1> |
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| <h2>Q: Does BIRT keep its data set in memory?</h2> |
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| Release 1.0 produces reports on demand, and keeps the entire report |
| (including the data set) in memory. Because reports are on demand, and delivered |
| as a single HTML page, reports in Release 1 will be small. |
| <br><br> |
| Later releases will store reports |
| on disk, and will support reports of unlimited size. At that time, |
| the data set will also be written to disk when it becomes too large |
| for memory.</p> |
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| <h2>Q: Does BIRT support crosstabs?</h2> |
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| This is planned for a future release. |
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| <h2>Q: Does BIRT support Java 5 (AKA Java 1.5)?</h2> |
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| Not yet. Some users have build BIRT under this version of Java and have |
| reported minor compile problems. The BIRT team does not yet test with |
| Java 5. |
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