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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 2. Installing BIRT FREE CHAPTER 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

Report Engine API


Embedding the Report Engine API into our application requires a little knowledge of the inner workings of BIRT. The API is beyond the scope of this book, but we will get a little view of how to create a simple report executor application.

For this application to work, we need to have Java 1.4 or higher set up for BIRT 2.2 and below, and Java 1.5 set up for BIRT 2.3 and above, and have the BIRT runtime set up and visible in our classpath. We will use the Apache Commons CLI to handle the command line options. The following does not take into account parameters; it simply demonstrates how to instantiate the Report Engine API.

package com.birt_book;
import java.util.HashMap;
import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLine;
import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLineParser;
import org.apache.commons.cli.HelpFormatter;
import org.apache.commons.cli.Options;
import org.apache.commons.cli.PosixParser;
import org.eclipse.birt.core.exception.BirtException;
import org.eclipse.birt.core.framework...
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