Integrating and Extending BIRT

Integrating and Extending BIRT

by Jason Weathersby, Tom Bondur, Iana Chatalbasheva, Don French
Released July 2008
Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 9780321580313

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Book description

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

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    Product information

    • Title: Integrating and Extending BIRT
    • Author(s): Jason Weathersby, Tom Bondur, Iana Chatalbasheva, Don French
    • Release date: July 2008
    • Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
    • ISBN: 9780321580313