BIRT Resources

Innovent Solutions is an active contributor to both the BIRT project and that the BIRT community. Our developers contribute to blogs that feature content about BIRT:

• BIRT World provides in-depth articles on various BIRT topics (with Jason Weathersby)

• Innovent Solutions also maintains a Subversion repository of useful BIRT examples. The BIRT Example Repository provides read access to anyone that enjoys learning by example.
• BIRT is a strong proponent of the use of BIRT extension points to add functionality to BIRT. In an effort to promote extension use, Innovent has worked with Blackboard Inc. to create two Google code projects that provide valuable code which can also be used as demonstration code.
• BIRT Controls Library uses the ReportItem extension to add new components to the BIRT palette which help your users visualize their data.
• BIRT Functions Library uses the Aggregate and Script Function extension points to extend BIRT's scripting and expressions functionality.
• Information about the BIRT Project can be found on the Eclipse Foundation site.
• BIRT Exchange by Actuate provides useful resources including forums, wikis, dev shares and a Marketplace.
• Our BIRT Exchange Marketplace microsite can be viewed here, which also provides access to BIRT Functions and BIRT Controls libraries.
• Questions, technical discussions and resources on the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project can be found on the BIRT Newsgroup hosted on the Eclipse Foundation site.
• Innovent recently completed an analysis of open source reporting tools, featuring BIRT, Jasper and Pentaho. Our analysis and comparisons can be viewed here.