Some people consider the BIRT Viewer
(that comes with the BIRT Runtime) as the Deployment endpoint. But in fact, BIRT
Deployment is a much larger topic due to the fact that the BIRT Report Engine API is
available to embed into Java applications.
In this chapter, we are going to look at two of the different Deployment options
available. We will look at the BIRT Viewer for J2EE that comes with the BIRT
Runtime and is embedded into the BIRT Eclipse IDE, and we are also going to look
at a basic Java application that implements the Report Engine API to run reports. We
are also going to look at the command-line tools that come with the BIRT Runtime
for executing reports.
Everything in this chapter uses utilities from the BIRT Runtime installation package,
available from the BIRT homepage at http://www.eclipse.org/birt.
BIRT Viewer
The BIRT Viewer is a J2EE application that is designed to demonstrate how to
implement the Report Engine API to execute reports in an online web application.
For most basic uses??”such as for small to medium size Intranet applications??”this is
an appropriate approach. The point to keep in mind about the BIRT Web Viewer is
that it is an example application. It can be used as a baseline for more sophisticated
web applications that will implement the BIRT Report Engine API.
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