Integrating and Extending BIRTThe world-wide developer community has downloaded over ten million copies of BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools). 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. Integrating and Extending BIRT, Third Edition, introduces programmers to BIRT architecture and the reporting framework. BIRT technology makes it possible for programmers to build customized reports using scripting and BIRT APIs. This book also includes extensive examples of how to use the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment to build plug-ins to extend the features of the BIRT framework. The source code for these examples is available for download at www.eclipse.org/birt. Key topics covered include
This revised and expanded third edition features the following new content
Readers may also be interested in this book's companion volume. BIRT: A Field Guide, Third Edition, is the authoritative guide to using BIRT Report Designer, the graphical tool that enables users of all levels to build reports, from simple to complex, without programming. |
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... BIRT Project .349 About building the BIRT project 349 Installing a working version of BIRT 350 Configuring Eclipse to compile BIRT and build the viewer JAR files Downloading and extracting the correct version of the BIRT source code ...
... project properties Understanding the Eclipse PDE Workbench Creating the ... project .382 Installing available software .384 Downloading the code for the extension ... BIRT source code from the CVS repository .390 Creating a rotated label ...
... project Defining the dependencies for the CSV report rendering extension ... project 466 469 470 473 473 474 479 479 479 480 486 488 494 494 Defining the ... BIRT source code from the CVS repository 503 504 504 504 506 509 · 510 511 ...
... project . ..531 Understanding the ODA data source user interface extension points .534 Understanding the ConnectionProfile extension point Understanding the propertyPages extension point Understanding the dataSource extension point ...
... project . Understanding the sample fragment . . Building , deploying , and testing a fragment · .635 635 636 637 640 641 · · .647 648 650 652 654 658 661 .. 661 661 673 684 684 685 685 705 L · · .707 Chapter 23 Developing a Charting ...