Plus, I have full access to the Eclipse IDE, code completion, and a much cleaner
IDE to develop Event Handlers. The drawback is that I would need to deploy the
classes with the reports and make sure they are visible in the Classpath for my
runtime environments.
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Summary
In this chapter, we looked at some of the Scripting capabilities that BIRT has to
offer with Expressions and Event Handlers. We have looked at the different Report
Contexts that are available for accessing properties and methods in BIRT Report
Designs, adding and removing report elements dynamically, and finally we have
looked at how to use Java objects as Event Handlers.
This touches on the BIRT API, which is a large topic and outside of the scope of this
book. But it gets the reader familiar with some of the things that are possible with the
Scripting and API environments that BIRT provides. More information can be gathered
on the Eclipse Website and Newsgroups, the BirtWorld blog, and on my website.
The final part of this book will look at deploying BIRT reports.
Deployment
So, you've developed a bunch of reports by now. While some of these reports may
be for your own use, some may be for others. How do you get these reports to these
users? That's the question that Deployment seeks to answer.
Within BIRT, Deployment is a large topic.
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