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06.23.08BIRT/Stripes exampleA long time has passed since my previous BIRT examples Deploying BIRT Report Engine API with Jakarta Struts and Deploying BIRT Report Engine API with Stripes. Although they have received a lot of attention and downloads, the examples were really basic and are now outdated. Since I had to use BIRT in my last projects I decided to update my BIRT/Stripes example. This example doesn't depend on the Tribix project anymore since BIRT supports HTML/Paginated HTML, PDF, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and PostScript outputs (images/charts are not embedded in Excel output). I've tried to follow some good practices that I think are important to use ...
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04.04.07Deploying BIRT Report Engine API with StripesNow that I use preferably Stripes over Struts Framework, I've decided to port my example "Deploying BIRT Report Engine API with Jakarta Struts" to this Framework. For this example I've used Stripes 1.4.2, BIRT Runtime 2.1.2, and Tribix 2.1.2. Continue Reading...
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12.10.06BIRT and PHP ReportingActuate Corporation and Zend Technologies have teamed up to allow PHP developers to quickly add reporting capabilities to web applications using Actuate BIRT. The collaboration between Zend and Actuate has resulted in new capabilities in the 3.0 version of the Zend Platform. Zend Platform 3.0 allows PHP developers to quickly integrate reporting capabilities, including charting, to web applications by calling Actuate BIRT reports via the Zend Java Bridge. Web application developers are often faced with strong end-user demands for reports that integrate and summarize application data. This new functionality will provide an efficient alternative to hand coding reports from scratch using ...
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08.15.06Deploying BIRT Report Engine API with Jakarta StrutsAfter reading the great article Deploying BIRT from Jason Weathersby I decide to create a little example on how to use BIRT RE API with Jakarta Struts framework. To do so I've followed Jason steps: Create a WebReport/WEB-INF/lib directory underneath the Tomcat webapps directory. Copy all the jars in the birt-runtime-2_1_0/ReportEngine/lib directory from the Report Engine download into your WebReport/WEB-INF/lib directory. Next, create a directory named platform in your WEB-INF folder. Copy the birt-runtime-2_1_0/Report Engine/plugins and birt-runtime-2_1_0/ReportEngine/configuration directories to the platform directory you just created. In this example the context is WebReport, so the folder structure is /webapps/WebReport/platform/plugins and webapps/WebReport/platform/configuration. Additionally, create directories below WebReport for ...
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07.13.06Tribix - Extended Emitters for BIRTTribix 2.1.0 final - Extended emitters for BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) provides a set of extended emitters for BIRT 2.1.0 final or above. It comes along with a PPT (MS PowerPoint) emitter preview release. You can now export all your reports made with the BIRT Reporting System to Excel, or even preview them in PowerPoint. This version does support fixed-column-width sheet output and image export to Excel which are great news since my last post about Reporting Tools. Here's a screenshoot:
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04.19.06XLS(MS Excel) Emitter for BIRTFor those who wanted an xls emitter for a long time, finally here may be a chance to taste. Thanks the Apache POI project and the new layout engine of BIRT 2.0, now we can easily create an xls emitter though it looks obviously not that fancy yet. You can see the full article here.
