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2. 2 Actuate Corporation © 2010 What is BIRT? Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Collection of APIs (DEAPI, REAPI, CEAPI) Designing Reports Eclipse based designer for WYSIWIG designing Can also create reports with Java & API’s Deploying Reports Deploy to application server (Tomcat, JBoss, etc.) AJAX based web viewer Using Java to call API directly

3. 3 Actuate Corporation © 2010 What is BIRT? Demo: Creating a BIRT Report

4. 4 Actuate Corporation © 2010 BIRT Extension Points Can use extension points to create: Report Items Charts Emitters Aggregation Functions Data Sources (ODA’s) And More…

5. 5 Actuate Corporation © 2010 Using Wizard to Create ODA Plug-in Demo: ODA Plug-In Wizard

6. 6 Actuate Corporation © 2010 Downloading the BIRT Source Code Demo: Downloading from CVS

7. 7 Actuate Corporation © 2010 Downloading the BIRT Source Code

8. 8 Actuate Corporation © 2010 Downloading the BIRT Source Code

9. 9 Actuate Corporation © 2010 Downloading the BIRT Source Code

10. 10 Actuate Corporation © 2010 Downloading the BIRT Source Code

11. 11 Actuate Corporation © 2010 Downloading the BIRT Source Code If you are using BIRT 3.7.1 or higher, you’ll use GIT, instead: http://wiki.eclipse.org/BIRT/FAQ/Birt_Project#Q:_How _to_Build_BIRT_3.7.1.2B_from_GIT.3F

12. 12 Actuate Corporation © 2010 Chart Plug-In Example Example BIRT Chart (source & jars): http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/devshare/designing- birt-reports/1480-adding-a-new-chart-type-3.7.2/

13. 13 Actuate Corporation © 2010 Plug-In 2 BIRT Contest Extending BIRT with Plug-Ins March 26 th – April 30 th Top 3 entries will win a 3 rd generation iPad See contest rules and details at BIRT- Exchange.orgBIRT- Exchange.org

14. 14 Actuate Corporation © 2010 Plug-In 2 BIRT Contest BIRT Data Plug-Ins ODAs Numbers to Words BIRT Output Types Emitters BIRT Report Items 571 five hundred seventy-one

15. 15 Actuate Corporation © 2010 EclipseCon 2012 BIRT Sessions Monday Getting Started with BIRT Tutorial - John Ward - 9:00am (Lake Fairfax B) Tuesday Extending BIRT with Plug-Ins – Michael Williams - 5:00pm (Lake Anne) Wednesday What is BIRT? – Virgil Dodson - 1:30pm (Lake Anne)

16. 16 Actuate Corporation © 2010 Questions?

17. 17 Actuate Corporation © 2010 Resources BIRT Exchange Community Site Centralized hub for BIRT developers Access demos, tutorials, tips and techniques, documentation… Enables developers to be more productive and build applications faster Marketplace for applications Explore Search/sort Rate, comment Forums Download Documentation Software Examples Contribute BIRT designs, code Technical tips Applications www.birt-exchange.com