About Actuate Deployment Kits
An Actuate Deployment Kit is an end-user product that you use to run, view, and print reports. Deployment Kit connects to and stores the reports on the file system. It also integrates with other Java Components - the report viewers and BIRT Studio.
Deployment Kit is not an authoring tool for reports. Actuate report design tools, like BIRT Spreadsheet Designer or BIRT Designer Professional, create the reports. Typically, your Deployment Kit administrator publishes reports to the file system. Deployment Kit is therefore not dependant upon a particular report design tool, freeing report developers to create reports in their own fashion. Deployment Kit handles file management, security, and versioning manually.
All you need is a web browser and the command to access the Deployment Kit. To use Deployment Kit, you must use Internet Explorer 7.x or later, Mozilla Firefox 3.x or later, Apple Safari 3.x or later, or Google Chrome.
You manage, generate, and view Actuate reports remotely or locally using the files and folders page in a web browser. Locally, any of the Actuate report design tools can perform these tasks as well.
When you are using Deployment Kit, the files and folders page appears as shown in Figure 1-3.
Figure 1-3  
Figure 1-4 shows a high-level view of how client applications interact with Deployment Kit. The shaded areas indicate the tools with which you work.
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