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Product Details
Publisher:Addison-Wesley Professional
Release date:July 28, 2008
Language:English
Product Dimensions:1.6 inches x 6.8 inches x 8.9 inches; 2.2 pounds
Shipping Weight:2.38 pounds
Number of Pages:724 pages
ISBN-10:0321580303
ISBN-13:978-0321580306
Product Description
The world-wide developer community has downloaded over three million copies of BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) from the Eclipse web site. 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.
The second of a two-book series on business intelligence and reporting technology, Integrating and Extending BIRT, Second Edition introduces programmers to BIRT architecture and the reporting framework. BIRT technology makes it possible for a programmer to build a customized report using scripting and BIRT APIs. A programmer can also extend the BIRT framework by creating a new plug-in using the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment. This book provides extensive examples on how to build plug-ins to extend the features of the BIRT framework. The source code for these examples is available for download.
The topics discussed 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 second edition, revised and expanded, adds the following new content
Updated architectural diagrams
Expanded scripting examples
Tag library descriptions
In-depth description of BIRT Web Viewer
Configuring BIRT to use a JNDI connection
XML report rendering plug-in example
Fragment plug-in localization example
Open Data Access (ODA) plug-in example implementing the new Data Tools Platform (DTP) design and run-time wizards
About the Author
The authors are members of the extended BIRT development team and have backgrounds in both computer science and technical writing. Collectively, they have many years of experience in technical consulting, training, writing, and publishing about reporting, business intelligence tools, and database technologies.
The second of a two-book series on business intelligence and reporting technology, Integrating and Extending BIRT, introduces programmers to BIRT architecture and the reporting framework. Its companion book, BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting, shows report developers how to create reports using the graphical tools of BIRT Report Designer. 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.
BIRT technology makes it possible for a programmer to build a customized report using scripting and BIRT APIs. This book informs report developers about how to write scripts that:
Customize the report-generation process
Incorporate complex business logic in reports
This book also informs application developers about how to:
Deploy reports
Integrate reporting capabilities into other applications
Extend BIRT functionality
A programmer can extend the BIRT framework by creating a new plug-in using the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE). This book provides extensive examples on how to build plug-ins to extend the features of the BIRT framework. The source code for these examples is available for download.
The topics discussed in this book 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 BIRT 2.2.1 edition adds the following new content:
Updated architectural diagrams
Expanded scripting examples
Tag library descriptions
In-depth description of BIRT Web Viewer
Configuring BIRT to use a JNDI connection
XML report rendering plug-in example
Fragment plug-in localization example
Open Data Access (ODA) plug-in example implementing the new Data Tools Platform (DTP) design and run-time wizards