BIRT Integration

BIRT is an Eclipse-based open-source software that provides the BIRT platform to create data visualizations and reports.

Some details about BIRT

BIRT has two main components: a visual report designer and a runtime component that you can deploy to your application server. The Eclipse-based interface provides an HTML page-oriented design model to easily create report design and integrate into web based applications.

You can preview the reports with a BIRT Viewer application that supports table of contents, exports content in different formats, and provides the library of tags needed for report pagination, etc.

For greater details on BIRT, refer here.

BIRT platform is integrated in Lycia in order to give 4gl developers a profound yet easy-to-use tool for revealing complex business logic and creating (and publishing) compound reports.

You can use BIRT functionality in Lycia for:

• creating, deploying, and viewing reports,
• creating, deploying, and viewing reports,
• creating, deploying, and viewing reports,
• creating, deploying, and viewing reports,
• creating, deploying, and viewing reports,

This is a simple realization diagram for the BIRT functionality in Lycia:

In this chapter, you will find the detailed information on how to work with BIRT for reporting.

The slide show given below summarizes this information as a demonstrative graphics:

Refer here for the overview of the Report Design perspective and here - for the description of the corresponding views.