If you are new to Eclipse and BIRT, download and install BIRT Report Designer Full Eclipse Install (All-in-One) package to start developing and designing BIRT reports. This package includes the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE), BIRT Report Designer, and all other required Eclipse components.
You must first download and install Java JDK 1.6 or higher.
If you experience persistent core exception or OSGi framework errors, it is often due to a mismatch between your Java environment and your Eclipse environment. For example, errors occur if you have a 32-bit Java environment and a 64-bit Eclipse installation.
Complete the following procedure to download BIRT Designer All-in-One on a Windows or Linux system.
How to install BIRT Report Designer All-in-One
1 Using your browser, navigate to the main BIRT web page at:
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/
2 From BIRT Project, choose Download BIRT 4.3.1.
3 From BIRT Report Downloads, choose All-in-One.
4 On BIRT Report Downloads, select the Download Link that meets your requirements, for example, Windows 64-bit.
Eclipse downloads - mirror selection appears. This page shows all the sites that provide this download file.
5 Choose the download site that is closest to your location.
The BIRT Report Designer all-in-one archive file downloads to your system.
6 Extract the files in the archive to the default location, C:\ on your machine, creating C:\eclipse.
To open BIRT Report Designer, start Eclipse, then start BIRT Report Designer as described in the following procedure. BIRT Report Designer is a perspective within Eclipse.
How to open BIRT Report Designer
1 To start Eclipse, in C:\eclipse, run eclipse.exe.
2 Select the default workspace.
3 If necessary, close the welcome window. In the Eclipse Window menu, choose Open Perspective➛Other➛Report Design.
Eclipse displays the BIRT Report Designer perspective.