Analysis and improvement of Birt internationalization based on eclipse

Development environment

The development environment for this article is used by Windows Vista Enterprise, birt-report-designer-all-in-one-2_2_2, Birt 2.2.2, Java EE servers apache-tomcat-6.0.18, of course, you can also use other Java EE servers such as Jboss.

First know BIRT

BIRT is a eclipse-based open source reporting system similar to jasperreports. It is primarily used on Java-ee Web applications. BIRT consists of two main parts: a report design based on Eclipse and a run-time component that can be added to your application service. BIRT also provides a graphical report making engine.

Internationalization of BIRT report files

To create a new Birt report, refer to the other documentation for the Web site, an existing file called Internationalization_file.rptdesign Report, and then click in the blank space of the report in Layout view as follows: Note It must be a blank space, Clicking on another location is not possible for this menu item.

Figure 1. Select a resource file for a report