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Eclipse BIRT Project
	; Eclipse BIRT Report Designer
Developer(s)	Eclipse Foundation
Stable release	2.5 / 2009-06-24; 5 months ago
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	Multilingual
Type	Enterprise Reporting / Business Intelligence
License	Eclipse Public License
Website	http://www.eclipse.org/birt

The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project is an open source software project that provides reporting and business intelligence capabilities for rich client and web applications, especially those based on Java and J2EE. BIRT is a top level software project within the Eclipse Foundation, an independent not-for-profit consortium of software industry vendors and an open source community.

The project's stated goals are to address a wide range of reporting needs within a typical application,^[1] ranging from operational or enterprise reporting to multi-dimensional online analytical processing (OLAP). Initially, the project has focused on and delivered capabilities that allow application developers to easily design and integrate reports into applications.

The project is supported by an active community of users at BIRT Exchange and developers at the Eclipse.org BIRT Project page.

BIRT has two main components: a visual report designer within the Eclipse IDE for creating BIRT Reports, and a runtime component for generating reports that can be deployed to any Java environment. The BIRT project also includes a charting engine that is both fully integrated into the report designer and can be used standalone to integrate charts into an application.

BIRT Report designs are persisted as XML and can access a number of different data sources including SQL databases, JDO datastores, JFire Scripting Objects, POJOs, XML and Web Services.

[edit] History

The BIRT project was first proposed and sponsored by Actuate Corporation when Actuate joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer on August 24, 2004^[2]. The project was subsequently approved and became a top level project within the Eclipse community on October 6, 2004^[3]. The project contributor community includes Innovent Solutions, and IBM. In 2007 IBM's Tivoli Division adopted BIRT as the infrastructure for its Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) product. TCR produces historical reports on Tivoli-managed IT resources and processes.

The initial project code base was designed and developed by Actuate beginning in early 2004 and donated to the Eclipse Foundation when the project was approved.

[edit] Versions

Eclipse BIRT Project Released Versions
Version	Release Date	Description
1.0 Preview	March 1, 2005	Preview at EclipseCon 2005: Eclipse Report Designer, Report Engine, Chart Engine
1.0	June 6, 2005	Initial BIRT Report Designer, BIRT Report Engine, BIRT Chart Engine
1.0.1	July, 2005	Support for Eclipse 3.1; RCP version of BIRT Report Designer. For more details, see BIRT 1.0.1 New and Notable
2.0	January 23, 2006	Major release. For more details, see BIRT 2.0 New and Notable
2.0.1	February 22, 2006	Maintenance release.
2.1	June 28, 2006	Major release as part of Eclipse Callisto Simultaneous Release. For more details, see BIRT 2.1 New and Notable
2.0.2	August 4, 2006	Maintenance release
2.1.1	September 26, 2006	Maintenance release
2.1.2	February 27, 2007	Maintenance release
2.1.3	July 5, 2007	Maintenance release
2.2	June 28, 2007	Major release as part of Eclipse Europa Simultaneous Release. For more details, see BIRT 2.2 New and Notable
2.2.1	October 2, 2007	Maintenance release
2.2.1.1	November 1, 2007	Maintenance release
2.2.2	February 27, 2008	Maintenance release
2.3	June 25, 2008	Major release as part of Eclipse Ganymede Simultaneous Release. For more details, see BIRT 2.3 New and Notable.
2.3.1	September 24, 2008	"SR 1" Fall Maintenance release
2.3.2	February 25, 2009	"SR 2" Winter Maintenance release
2.5	June 24, 2009	Major release as part of Eclipse Galileo Simultaneous Release. For more details, see BIRT 2.5 New and Notable.

[edit] References

^ "BIRT Project Description and Scope". http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/project/description.php. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
^ "Actuate Joins Eclipse Foundation as Strategic Developer and Board Member". Press Release. Eclipse Foundation. 2004-08-24. http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/aug242004actuatepr.html. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
^ "Eclipse Foundation and Actuate Announce Approval of Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project". Press Release. Eclipse Foundation. 2004-10-06. http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/oct62004birtpr. Retrieved 2007-05-27.

[edit] Bibliography

Hague, Nola; Tatchell, Jane (July 27, 2008), BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting (2nd ed.), Addison-Wesley Professional, pp. 794, ISBN 0321580273, http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321580273
Weathersby, Jason; Bondur, Tom; Chatalbasheva, Iana; French, Don (July 28, 2008), Integrating and Extending BIRT (2nd ed.), Addison-Wesley Professional, pp. 724, ISBN 0321580303, http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321580303
Ward, John (February 22, 2008), Practical Data Analysis and Reporting with BIRT (1st ed.), Packt Publishing, pp. 312, ISBN 1847191096, http://www.packtpub.com/practical-data-analysis-reporting-with-birt/book

[edit] External links

[0] "BIRT Project Description and Scope". http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/project/description.php. Retrieved 2007-05-27.

[1] "Actuate Joins Eclipse Foundation as Strategic Developer and Board Member". Press Release. Eclipse Foundation. 2004-08-24. http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/aug242004actuatepr.html. Retrieved 2007-05-27.

[2] "Eclipse Foundation and Actuate Announce Approval of Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project". Press Release. Eclipse Foundation. 2004-10-06. http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/oct62004birtpr. Retrieved 2007-05-27.

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