Integrating and Deploying BIRT

Course Price: 567 EURO / 4.250 DKK per day

Who Should Attend?
Developers and Project Mangers

Prerequisites:
Students should be experienced Java programmers with practical knowledge of BIRT Report Designer and the Eclipse IDE.

Course Description
This BIRT training course provides a fast start for developers interested in building and deploying reporting in their Java applications. The course includes extensive coverage of advanced scripting with BIRT reports, as well as using the BIRT Java APIs to embed BIRT reports in Java applications. The Eclipse-based development environment is used throughout the course.

Using a highly interactive, instructor led format, students are able to quickly leverage the BIRT technology to solve the reporting challenges in their applications without time-consuming trial-and-error experimentation. This class is essential for the developer looking to quickly come up to speed with BIRT and integrate it into their application.

By the end of this course, developers will have mastered the skills to:

Customize the report-generation process
Control both the run phase and render phase of the report engine.
Send commands to the BIRT Viewer to display reports.
Incorporate complex business logic in their reports
Add reporting capabilities to a Java application
Create report designs programmatically
Deploy BIRT reports to an application server

Students learn these programming concepts by working through exercises and reviewing sample code. Each student receives a workbook, which contains all the exercises students will complete in class. Students also receive Integrating and Extending BIRT, the book published by Addison-Wesley.

• Topics:
  Writing JavaScript Event Handlers in BIRT reports
• Developing reports with Scripted Data Sources
• Writing and debugging reports with Java Event Handlers
• Creating report documents, running and rendering reports in HTML and PDF using Report Engine API
• Extracting data from BIRT reports using Report Engine API
• Obtaining report parameter definitions using Report Engine API
• Creating BIRT reports using Design Engine API
• Modifying BIRT reports using Design Engine API
• Adding computed columns to BIRT report designs using Design Engine API
• Creating and rendering charts using Chart Engine API
• Deploy the BIRT viewer and report engine to an application server.
• View report using the BIRT viewer installed on an application server.