Integrating and Extending BIRT

Chapter 18. Developing a Report Rendering Extension

This chapter describes how to develop a report rendering extension using the Eclipse PDE with a sample CSV report rendering extension as the example. You learn how to develop a BIRT report rendering extension in the following sections:

• Understanding a report rendering extension

• Developing the CSV report rendering extension

• Understanding the sample CSV report rendering extension

• Testing the CSV report rendering plug-in

Understanding a report rendering extension

BIRT Report Engine provides report rendering extensions that render a report in HTML and PDF. In BIRT release 2.1, the BIRT report rendering extension API supports rendering a report in a customized format, such as CSV.

This chapter provides a ...