Book description
The world-wide developer community has downloaded over ten million copies of BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools). Built on the open-source Eclipse platform, BIRT is a powerful reporting system that provides an end-to-end solution from creating and deploying reports to integrating report capabilities in enterprise applications.
Integrating and Extending BIRT, Third Edition, introduces programmers to BIRT architecture and the reporting framework. BIRT technology makes it possible for programmers to build customized reports using scripting and BIRT APIs. This book also includes extensive examples of how to use the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment to build plug-ins to extend the features of the BIRT framework. The source code for these examples is available for download at www.eclipse.org/birt.
Key topics covered include
Installing and deploying BIRT
Deploying a BIRT report to an application server
Understanding BIRT architecture
Scripting in a BIRT report design
Integrating BIRT functionality into applications
Working with the BIRT extension framework
This revised and expanded third edition features the following new content
Updated architectural diagrams
Expanded scripting examples
Debugging event handlers
Developing an advanced report item with data binding
Developing a data extraction extension
Developing a charting extension
Readers may also be interested in this book’s companion volume. BIRT: A Field Guide, Third Edition, is the authoritative guide to using BIRT Report Designer, the graphical tool that enables users of all levels to build reports, from simple to complex, without programming.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Installing and Deploying BIRT
- Part II. Understanding the BIRT Framework
- Part III. Scripting in a Report Design
- Part IV. Integrating BIRT into Applications
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Part V. Working with the Extension Framework
- Chapter 16. Building the BIRT Project
- Chapter 17. Extending BIRT
- Chapter 18. Developing a Report Item Extension
- Chapter 19. Developing a Report Rendering Extension
- Chapter 20. Developing an ODA Extension
- Chapter 21. Developing a Data Extraction Extension
- Chapter 22. Developing a Fragment
- Chapter 23. Developing a Charting Extension
- Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: Integrating and Extending BIRT
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2011
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780132732543
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