BIRT, which stands for Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools, is an open source software project from Eclipse. This provides the reporting and business intelligence capabilities for rich client and web applications, especially for those based on Java and J2EE.
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BIRT is a collection of the development tools and technologies that were originally used for developing reports on application servers. BIRT is built from two main components: the visual report designer within the Eclipse IDE for creating BIRT Reports, and the runtime component for generating the reports that can then be deployed to any Java environment.
The book is written in a fast-paced, task-driven, tutorial style, and those that read it will understand the structure, not just be able to follow as series of steps. The focus is of the book is on the most visible and familiar product built with the BIRT framework, which is the BIRT Report Designer itself.
The BIRT Report Designer is an Eclipse plug-in that itself utilizes the BIRT technologies to allow users to design reports in the BIRT document format. Also covered in the book is the BIRT charting engine, which lets you add charts to your application.
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