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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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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 Viewer


The BIRT Viewer is a J2EE application that is designed to demonstrate the implementation of Report Engine API to execute reports in an online web application. For most basic uses, such as for small to medium size Intranet applications, this is an appropriate approach. The thing to keep in mind about the BIRT Web Viewer is that it is an example application. It can be used as a baseline for more sophisticated web applications that will implement the BIRT Report Engine API.

Installation of the BIRT viewer is documented at a number of places. The Eclipse BIRT website has some great tutorials at http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/deploy/viewerSetup.php and http://wiki.eclipse.org/BIRT/FAQ/Deployment.

This is also documented on my website in a series of articles, aimed at introducing people to BIRT (http://digiassn.blogspot.com/2005/10/birt-report-server-pt-2.html).

Let's not go into details about installing Apache Tomcat as this is covered in more depth in other locations, but we...

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