BIRT Project

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Eclipse BIRT Project
Developer(s) Eclipse Foundation
Initial release2005;18 years ago (2005)
Stable release
4.13 [1] / 3 March 2023;7 months ago (3 March 2023)
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Available inMultilingual
Type Enterprise Reporting / Business Intelligence
License Eclipse Public License
Website 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 Java EE. 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.

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The project's stated goals are to address a wide range of reporting needs within a typical application, [2] 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 Developer Center 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 JDO datastores, JFire Scripting Objects, POJOs, SQL databases, Web Services and XML.

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. [3] The project was subsequently approved and became a top-level project within the Eclipse community on October 6, 2004 [4] The project contributor community includes IBM, and Innovent Solutions.

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.

Versions

Eclipse BIRT Project Released Versions
VersionRelease DateDescription
1.0 PreviewMarch 1, 2005Preview at EclipseCon 2005: Eclipse Report Designer, Report Engine, Chart Engine
1.0June 6, 2005Initial BIRT Report Designer, BIRT Report Engine, BIRT Chart Engine
1.0.1July, 2005Support for Eclipse 3.1; RCP version of BIRT Report Designer [5]
2.0January 23, 2006Major release [6]
2.0.1February 22, 2006Maintenance release
2.1June 28, 2006Major release as part of Eclipse Callisto Simultaneous Release [7]
2.0.2August 4, 2006Maintenance release
2.1.1September 26, 2006Maintenance release
2.1.2February 27, 2007Maintenance release
2.1.3July 5, 2007Maintenance release
2.2June 28, 2007Major release as part of Eclipse Europa Simultaneous Release [8]
2.2.1October 2, 2007Maintenance release
2.2.1.1November 1, 2007Maintenance release
2.2.2February 27, 2008Maintenance release
2.3June 25, 2008Major release as part of Eclipse Ganymede Simultaneous Release [9]
2.3.1September 24, 2008"SR 1" Fall Maintenance release
2.3.2February 25, 2009"SR 2" Winter Maintenance release
2.5June 24, 2009Major release as part of Eclipse Galileo Simultaneous Release [10]
2.5.1September 25, 2009"SR 1" Fall Maintenance release
2.5.2February 28, 2010"SR 2" Winter Maintenance release
2.6June 24, 2010Major release as part of Eclipse Helios Simultaneous Release [11]
2.6.1September 17, 2010"SR 1" Fall Maintenance release
2.6.2February 25, 2011"SR 2" Spring Maintenance release
3.7June 22, 2011Major release as part of Eclipse Indigo Simultaneous Release [12]
3.7.1September 23, 2011"SR 1" Fall Maintenance release
3.7.2February 24, 2012"SR 2" Maintenance release
4.2.0June 27, 2012Major release as part of Eclipse Juno Simultaneous Release [13]
4.2.1September 28, 2012Maintenance release
4.2.2February 22, 2013Maintenance release
4.3June 26, 2013Major release as part of Eclipse Kepler Simultaneous Release [14]
4.3.1September 27, 2013Maintenance release
4.3.2February 28, 2014Maintenance release
4.4.0June 25, 2014Major release as part of Eclipse Luna Simultaneous Release [15]
4.4.1September 26, 2014Maintenance release
4.4.2February 27, 2015Maintenance release
4.5.0June 24, 2015Major release as part of Eclipse Mars Simultaneous Release [16]
4.6.0June 22, 2016Major release as part of Eclipse Neon Simultaneous Release [17]
4.7.0June 28, 2017Major release as part of Eclipse Oxygen Simultaneous Release [18]
4.8.0June 27, 2018Major release as part of Eclipse Photon Simultaneous Release [19]
4.9.0June 16, 2021Minor release [20]

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References

  1. ↑ "Release 4.13.0".
  2. ↑ "BIRT Project Description and Scope". Archived from the original on 4 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
  3. ↑ "Actuate Joins Eclipse Foundation as Strategic Developer and Board Member". Press Release. Eclipse Foundation. 2004-08-24. Archived from the original on 9 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
  4. ↑ "Eclipse Foundation and Actuate Announce Approval of Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project". Press Release. Eclipse Foundation. 2004-10-06. Retrieved 2007-05-27.
  5. ↑ BIRT 1.0.1 New and Notable
  6. ↑ BIRT 2.0 New and Notable
  7. ↑ BIRT 2.1 New and Notable
  8. ↑ BIRT 2.2 New and Notable
  9. ↑ BIRT 2.3 New and Notable
  10. ↑ BIRT 2.5 New and Notable
  11. ↑ BIRT 2.6 New and Notable
  12. ↑ BIRT 3.7 New and Notable
  13. ↑ BIRT 4.2 New and Notable
  14. ↑ BIRT 4.3 New and Notable
  15. ↑ BIRT 4.4 Release information
  16. ↑ BIRT 4.5 Release information
  17. ↑ BIRT 4.6 Release information
  18. ↑ BIRT 4.7 Release information
  19. ↑ BIRT 4.8 Release information
  20. ↑ "4.9.0". 8 March 2021.

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