BIRT RCP Report Designer is a stand-alone report design application that enables report developers to produce reports in both web and PDF formats. This application uses the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) to provide a report design environment that is less complex than the full Eclipse platform. BIRT RCP Report Designer runs on Windows only.
The RCP Report Designer is provided primarily as a reference implementation of a Rich Client Platform application and is not the focus of this information.
To install BIRT RCP Report Designer, download and extract an archive file. The following examples use Release 4.3.1.
Complete the following procedure to download and install BIRT RCP Report Designer on a Windows system.
How to install BIRT RCP Report Designer
1 Using your browser, navigate to the main BIRT web page at:
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/
2 From BIRT Home, choose Download BIRT 4.3.1.
3 From BIRT Report Downloads, choose RCP Designer.
Eclipse downloads - mirror selection appears. This page shows all the sites that provide this download file.
4 Choose the download site that is closest to your location.
The BIRT RCP Report Designer archive downloads to your system.
5 Extract the archive file to a hard drive location that you specify.
The extraction creates a directory named birt‑rcp-report-designer-4_3_1 at the location that you specify.
To test the installation, start BIRT RCP Report Designer as described in the following procedure.
How to test the BIRT RCP Report Designer installation
1 Navigate to the birt-rcp-report-designer-4_3_1 directory.
2 To run BIRT RCP Report Designer, double-click BIRT.exe. BIRT RCP Report Designer appears.