The BIRT Workbench
In Eclipse, the main work area is called the workbench. Once you open the BIRT
perspective, you will be looking at the Eclipse workbench with the BIRT perspective.
The BIRT Environment and Your First Report
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The BIRT perspective is broken up into several different sections by default, but is
customizable by the user. For this book, we will keep this default. However, if you
wanted to change the layout, you would only need to "drag and drop" any of the
workbench tabs to another section.
The Navigator
The first section under the BIRT workspace that we will discuss is the Navigator.
The Navigator is fairly universal among Eclipse perspectives, as it is what is used to
browse the current workspace for contained projects. Under the navigator, you can
create and manage projects, reports, libraries, templates, and various other files that
would be contained in your projects. If you wanted to rename the folder or create
folders to organize report elements??”such as file locations??”it can all be done under
the Navigator. The Navigator can be used to do many of the same functions that you
can perform under the menu bar, under the File section. If your workspace contains
many different reporting projects, you can also use the Navigator to go into those
projects, so that other projects are not visible during editing.
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