birt--Business intelligence and reporting tools, starting from scratch

1. Introduction

BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) is an Eclipse-based, open-source reporting system developed for WEB applications, in particular because it is based on Java and Java EE. BIRT has two main components: the Eclipse-based Report Designer and the runtime components deployed on the application server.

2. Download

Download website: http://download.eclipse.org/birt/downloads/, find the right one, then download!

If you don't understand, use translation.

A.birt Report Design Component Download

Because I already have eclipse installed, I only need to download Birt related plugin!

That is, the framework, click on "Download Now", then I just select the image download (select the image near).

B.birt run-time component download

Here there is only one option, just click on "Downloadnow" Can, also next I choose the image download (select near the image).

C. Download the two component information

Birt-report-framework-4_4_1-20140916.zip, Birt-runtime-4_4_1-20140916.zip

3. Installation

A. Design and Installation

Unpack the framework package and place it in Eclipse's plugins and features directories like any other plugin, and unzip the runtime into any directory, such as C:\birtruntime. Here's a point: Birt's runtime is not needed at some point, for example, but after plugin is exported to RCP, there is no need to install runtime on other machines to run the report.

Note:

1.BIRTto rely onGEFand theEMF, so yourEclipseplatform to install correctlyGEFand theEMF;

2. If you want to display the results of the report in PDF format, we have to do the following two things: Download itext to Http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/itext/itext-1.3.jar and copy to plugins/ Org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.pdf_version/lib directory; to http://dev.conio.net/repos/prototype/dist/ Prototype.js Download the prototype.js and copy it to the/org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer_version/birt/ajax/lib directory

================= the above plug-in installation, I was looking online, did not try, the following is the use of "Update Manager" installation

Think about here, if you follow the above steps to achieve, that is, download the plug-in package from the official website, put the plug-in package into Eclipse, start Eclipse. This way feel bad management, such as I want to uninstall the plugin, I have to go to the Eclipse directory, the previous add-ons package removed (this is my online search, as to the principle is not so, have not tried. If someone has tried, please tell me the result of the verification, thank you! )。

Instead of using the installation method described above, we will then use the Update Manager in Eclipse to perform the installation of the Birt plugin.

In fact, the official website has provided a variety of installation methods to meet my needs.

Eclipse "Update Management" How to do, I will not say, the official website address: http://download.eclipse.org/birt/downloads/updmaninst2.2.php

In fact, the official website has provided a variety of installation methods to meet my needs.
BIRT Update Site Url:http://wiki.eclipse.org/birt_update_site_url

Depending on your needs, you can also choose all of them!

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After the Birt plugin is ready to install, reboot your eclipse and finish!

Choose Window > Open prespective > Other ... and then report Design.

4. Tutorials

Official website Guide pai:http://www.eclipse.org/birt/documentation/tutorial/index.php

5. Examples-what you can do

Visit the website and you'll find something new: http://eclipse.org/birt/demos/

birt--Business intelligence and reporting tools, starting from scratch