The homepage is also where you can get the various BIRT distributions, such as the
All-In-One Eclipse package (which is Eclipse pre-packaged and configured with
BIRT), the BIRT Standalone Report Designer, and information about retrieving and
building BIRT from source.
For the following installations, we will use the BIRT 2.2 release.
There are several installation paths to choose from. The one I highly recommend to
people is the BIRT All-In-One package. You can also install BIRT as a plug-in to go
into an already existing Eclipse installation, or you can retrieve the BIRT Standalone
RCP package. I will go into depth about each one of these packages, and the benefits
of and reasons to use each in the following sections.
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Installing BIRT from the All-in-One
Installation
The BIRT All-in-One package is the easiest one to install for BIRT, so it will be the
first one I demonstrate. The BIRT All-in-One package is a BIRT distribution that
contains a full Eclipse installation, pre-configured with BIRT. I usually use this as
the base installation for Eclipse, and add plug-ins accordingly. BIRT can have some
tricky issues with configuration that I have come across in the past, and since then, I
avoid these by installing the All-In-One package.
As with most BIRT installations, the All-in-One package is available from the
Download BIRT link, as shown previously.
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