BIRT

BIRT is an Eclipse-based open source reporting system for web applications, especially those based on Java and J2EE. BIRT has two main components: a report designer based on Eclipse, and a runtime component that you can add to your app server. BIRT also offers a charting engine that lets you add charts to your own application. BIRT reports consist of four main parts: data, data transforms, business logic and presentation.

BIRT has two main components: a visual report designer within the Eclipse IDE for creating BIRT Reports, and a runtime component for generating reports that can be deployed to any Java environment. The BIRT project also includes a charting engine that is both fully integrated into the report designer and can be used standalone to integrate charts into an application. Its main feature includes

• Databases, web services, Java objects all can supply data to your BIRT report
• BIRT's use of the Open Data Access (ODA) framework allows anyone to build new UI and runtime support for any kind of tabular data
• Reports present data sorted, summarized, filtered and grouped to fit the user's needs
• Using BIRT's JavaScript support, Business logic could be added to conver the data
• Generate reports in the form of Lists, Charts, Crosstab, Letters & Documents, Compound Reports