The world-wide developer community has downloaded over three million copies of BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) from the Eclipse web site. Built on the open-source Eclipse platform, BIRT is a powerful reporting system that provides an end-to-end solution, from creating and deploying reports to integrating report capabilities in enterprise applications.
The second of a two-book series on business intelligence and reporting technology,
Integrating and Extending BIRT, Second Edition introduces programmers to BIRT architecture and the reporting framework. BIRT technology makes it possible for a programmer to build a customized report using scripting and BIRT APIs. A programmer can also extend the BIRT framework by creating a new plug-in using the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment. This book provides extensive examples on how to build plug-ins to extend the features of the BIRT framework. The source code for these examples is available for download.
The topics discussed include
- Installing and deploying BIRT
- Deploying a BIRT report to an application server
- Understanding BIRT architecture
- Scripting in a BIRT report design
- Integrating BIRT functionality into applications
- Working with the BIRT extension framework
This second edition, revised and expanded, adds the following new content
- Updated architectural diagrams
- Expanded scripting examples
- Tag library descriptions
- In-depth description of BIRT Web Viewer
- Configuring BIRT to use a JNDI connection
- XML report rendering plug-in example
- Fragment plug-in localization example
- Open Data Access (ODA) plug-in example implementing the new Data Tools Platform (DTP) design and run-time wizards
