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BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting

You're reading from   BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting Create, Design, Format, and Deploy Reports with the world's most popular Eclipse-based Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849511667
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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John Ward John Ward
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BIRT 2.6 Data Analysis and Reporting
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing BIRT 3. The BIRT Environment and First Report 4. Visual Report Items 5. Working with Data 6. Report Parameters 7. Report Projects and Libraries 8. Charts, Hyperlinks, and Drilldowns 9. Scripting and Event Handling 10. Deployment

BIRT prerequisites


BIRT has a fairly small set of requirements to run, depending on one's needs.

Software requirements

There are no specific operating system requirements to run BIRT as it is a Java application and it should run on any platform that Java will run on. For the BIRT Report Designer, any platform that runs Eclipse will work. I have successfully run and developed reports under Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX.

Note

A fair word of warning to the Mac folks: In the past I have run into some performance issues running BIRT under OSX. It has been a few years and this may not be the case anymore, but I would like to put this forth as a cautionary note. If performance of BIRT is poor under OSX, it might be advisable to try to run this tool under a Linux or Windows setup using Parallels or VMWare.

Hardware requirements

As far as hardware requirements, I would recommend at least a Pentium 3 processor with minimum of 512 MB of RAM for the BIRT Report Designer to function without problems. The...

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