Building Birt

Introduction

This page details the process of Building BIRT and is intended for developers.

For information on the BIRT project see the BIRT Homepage.

Requirements

The Requirements will depend on the version of BIRT you are building.

Configuring Eclipse

Yes.

BIRT Plugins

Often you will only need to checkout a few of the plugins. Listed below is a brief description for each of the BIRT plugins.

org.eclipse.birt.chart.device.extension Extension classes for the device renderer framework for charts 
org.eclipse.birt.chart.engine Chart model and factory classes 
org.eclipse.birt.chart.engine.extension Extension classes for the model renderer framework for charts 
org.eclipse.birt.chart.reportitem Classes for the chart module to interact with the BIRT designer and runtime engine 
org.eclipse.birt.chart.shared Classes shared between different components of the chart module 
org.eclipse.birt.chart.ui Chart builder UI classes 
org.eclipse.birt.chart.ui.extension Extensions for the chart builder UI 
org.eclipse.birt.chart.device.extension Chart engine extension plugin containing device renderers implementations (Swing, SWT, PNG, GIF, JPG, BMP) 
org.eclipse.birt.chart.device.svg Chart engine extension plugin containing SVG device renderer’s implementation 
org.eclipse.birt.converters Contains converters that can convert reports from other formats to the BIRT report format 
org.eclipse.birt.core Provides the framework for loading the plugins at run-time and contains other classes that can be used by any other module 
org.eclipse.birt.data Provides the data engine implementation and the ODA factory implementation. It also contains classes for applying transformations on the data. 
org.eclipse.birt.data.oda ODA public interface: the classes and interfaces used to create data extensions. 
org.eclipse.birt.data.oda.adapter.dtp Adapter for Data Tools project 
org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.flatfile The ODA driver for accessing flat file data sources 
org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.flatfile.ui The user interface for the ODA flat file driver 
org.eclipse.birt.data.oda.jdbc The ODA driver for accessing JDBC data sources 
org.eclipse.birt.data.oda.jdbc.ui The user interface for the ODA JDBC driver 
org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.sampledb The ODA driver for accessing the sample Derby data base 
org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.sampledb.ui The user interface for the ODA sample database driver 
org.eclipse.birt.data.oda.xml The ODA driver for accessing XML data sources 
org.eclipse.birt.data.oda.xml.ui The user interface for the ODA XML driver 
org.eclipse.birt.report.debug.ui Used for creating launch configuration when debugging reports that contain Java events 
org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.core The core classes of the BIRT report designer, including classes that interact with the BIRT model, and localization and other  utility classes 
org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.lib The classes used for library manipulation 
org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.lib.explorer Handles browsing and exploring library contents 
org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.ui The BIRT report designer 
org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.ui.rcp The BIRT RCP report designer 
org.eclipse.birt.report.engine The BIRT reporting engine that generates the report from a report design 
org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.fo The emitter for generating report output using FO 
org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.html The emitter that generates report output in HTML 
org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.pdf The emitter that generates report output in PDF 
org.eclipse.birt.report.model The BIRT report model 
org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer The BIRT report viewer (BIRT web app) 
org.eclipse.birt-feature The BIRT feature