BIRT 2.5.2 provides a variety of tools to construct reports to analyze data.
These include charts, aggregation elements, drill to detail capabilities,
nested tables, data cubes and crosstabs. These features are presented very
well in the AJAX based viewer when deployed to the web, supporting
pagination, table of contents, and exporting of data and contents to other
formats. Out of the box, BIRT supports exporting to HTML, paginated HTML,
WORD, PDF, PostScript, PPT, and Excel. BIRT also provides an extension point
to implement your own emitters. For an example of implementing an XML emitter
see Developing an Eclipse BIRT XML Report Rendering Extension or BIRT:
Writing an Emitter.
As stated earlier BIRT supports exporting to Excel. The BIRT Excel emitter
creates a Microsoft Office XML XLS document that can be opened in Microsoft
Office 2003 or greater. To use this fea... (more)
The Eclipse platform is an Open Source, integrated system of application
development tools that you implement and extend using a plug-in interface.
Eclipse provides a set of core plug-ins that configures the basic services
for the platform's framework. A platform developer can build and integrate
new tools in this application development system.
Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT) is a set of plug-in extensions
that lets a developer add reporting functionality to an application. The APIs
in BIRT define extension points that let the developer add custom
functionality to t... (more)
The Eclipse platform is an Open Source, integrated system of application
development tools that you implement and extend using a plug-in interface.
Eclipse provides a set of core plug-ins that configures the basic services
for the platform's framework. A platform developer can build and integrate
new tools in this application development system.
Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT) is a set of plug-in extensions
that lets a developer add reporting functionality to an application. The APIs
in BIRT define extension points that let the developer add custom
functionality to t... (more)
BIRT 2.5 M7 was released earlier this month. This milestone adds features
like, default parameter value scripting, the ability to paste HTML and RTF
directly into a Text element, and independent Locale formatting. Crosstabs
have also been improved to support dragging attributes directly from the data
cube into the crosstab, independent visibility for a measure and its totals,
and improved support for empty values associated with a time dimension. In
addition a new interface is provided that allows your Java programs to track
the progress of a BIRT report.
To read more about the n... (more)
Java Developer Magazine on Ultizer
BIRT offers several ways reports can be deployed. The AJAX based BIRT viewer
can be deployed to your application server, the BIRT tag libraries can be
used or you can deploy the Report Engine in your application. You can also
modify any of the above options, given that the source is available for
download. Several commercial options are also available. This post explains
deploying the BIRT engine as an Action component within Struts2. It also
discusses using Actuate’s JSAPI with Struts 2’s Bean tag.
BIRT Engine Deployed to Struts 2
The BIRT repor... (more)
Jason Weathersby is a member of the extended BIRT development team at Actuate Corporation and has backgrounds in both computer science and technical writing. He has many years experience in technical consulting, training, writing, and publishing about reporting, business intelligence tools, and database technologies.
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