Installing and Deploying Eclipse BIRTintroduces the currently available BIRT reporting packages, the prerequisites for installation, and the steps to install the packages and deploy BIRT technology on an application server.
Installing and Deploying Eclipse BIRT includes the following sections:
Introducing Eclipse BIRT Report Designers. BIRT provides a number of separate packages as downloadable archive (.zip or .tar.gz) files on the Eclipse website. Some of the packages are stand-alone modules, others require an existing Eclipse environment, and still others provide additional functionality to report developers and application developers. This section describes the available packages and the prerequisites for those packages.
Installing an Eclipse BIRT Report Designer. BIRT provides two report designers as separate packages, which are downloadable archive (.zip) files on the Eclipse website. This section describes the steps required to install each of the available report designers on a Microsoft Windows system.
Deploying a BIRT report to an application server. This section introduces the distribution of reports through an application server such as Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, or BEA WebLogic. The instructions in the section provide detailed guidance about deploying a BIRT report to Apache Tomcat version 7.0. From those instructions, a developer can infer how to deploy to other servers.
Introducing Eclipse BIRT Report Designers. BIRT provides a number of separate packages as downloadable archive (.zip or .tar.gz) files on the Eclipse website. Some of the packages are stand-alone modules, others require an existing Eclipse environment, and still others provide additional functionality to report developers and application developers. This section describes the available packages and the prerequisites for those packages.