CLI - Emitter Selection possible?

Dear all,

I'm currently puzzled on how to use the native excel emitter plugin(1) with BIRT runtime 4.2.2 via the command line interface.

When I designed the report (in juno, using the latest BIRT release), I simply placed the jar-File of the emitter in the eclips/plugins-directory. Now using the runtime the emitter is not used, even though I placed the jar-file in the lib-directory and added it to the class path.

My goal is primarily to have the content spread on different excel worksheets. It works in the designer, but not in the runtime.

My call currently looks like this:

java  -cp '<many-jar-files>' -DBIRT_HOME='<correct-home>' -Dorg.eclipse.datatools_workspacepath='<workspace-dir>' org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.ReportRunner -o '/tmp/out.xls' -f 'xls' -p dbURL=jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1:5432/<database> -p dbUsername=<user> -p dbPassword=<password> -p <some-parameters> --emitter_id=org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.nativexls '/tmp/test.xls.rptdesign'

I tried it with and without the --emitter_id-parameter.

Where can I start debugging?

Kind regards,

Hendrik


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(1) http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/native-excel-emitter-birt-plugin/ - latest version as of Oct 2011