In BIRT Designer Professional, compiling translates a Java source code file into a bytecode (.class) file.

In BIRT Designer Professional and the Information Object Design perspective, compiling translates data connection definition (.dcd) files, data source map (.sma) files, and information object (.iob) files into an information object.

In BIRT iHub Integration Technology, compiling an Information Delivery API (IDAPI) application written in Java translates a source code file into a bytecode (.class) file. Similarly, compiling an IDAPI application written in Microsoft .NET C# translates a source code file into object code.