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Overview

Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) is an open source, Eclipse-based reporting system that integrates with your Java/J2EE application to produce compelling reports. BIRT is the only top-level Eclipse project focused on business intelligence.This Refcard provides an overview of the BIRT components focusing on a few key capabilities of the BIRT Designer, BIRT Runtime APIs, and BIRT Web Viewer. This Refcard should be interesting to report designers as well as developers or architects involved in integrating BIRT reports into applications.

About the Author

Virgil Dodson is a Developer Evangelist at Actuate Corporation and blogger/forum moderator at the BIRT Exchange community site. Virgil has over 13 years experience as a software developer. For the past 6 years he has helped Java developers get started with Actuate’s embedded reporting products. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from DeVry.

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maxodo replied on Mon, 2009/10/19 - 10:37am

Thank you for the view of the BIRT components. straight BIRT Runtime APIs are very interesting for me.