BIRT

[J Arshad]

Does anyone know if the new Eclipse project BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) can be used with a stand-alone SWT application? I'm enquiring since the introductory paragraph on the project homepage reads:

"BIRT is an Eclipse-based open source reporting system for web applications, especially those based on Java and J2EE...."

My application is not a web application. Does anyone know if I can make use of BIRT. I'm mainly interested in creating reports with graphs that can be displayed on screen and then possibly be saved as PDF.

Many thanks,

Jay

[kri shan]

Try reporting engine jasperReports. use the designer tool iReport 0.4.1 for creating non web application. It supports PDF output format also.

[Kalman Hazins]

birt can be used with standalone SWT/JFace applications

[J Arshad]

Thanks,

I'm having problems understanging how it fits into the greater scheme of things. I've gone thru the lightweight tutorial on the BIRT site, but not quite sure how I embed the resulting report into my application! I'm probably being a bit dumb here, and I know it's early days of BIRT, but does anyone know how to run this report? And more importantly how to programmatically run it. For example, I want to make it a menu option in my standalone GUI application.

Many thanks,

Jay

[J Arshad]

OK,

I've figured out that it's the Reports Engine that helps you create report in different formats, etc. But I can't find any API reference for that anywahere! Is it not officially released yet? The libraries seem to be present in the BIRT download.

Jay