New BIRT 2.6 Features in Helios

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Jason Weathersby (Actuate)

Abstract:

This webinar introduces new features provided by the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project with its 2.6 release. BIRT is a powerful reporting framework that is part of the open source Eclipse initiative. Using BIRT, developers can incorporate reports into their applications without the need for time-consuming custom code, or they can build on and extend BIRT to provide valuable reporting services for their applications and products.

This session details improvements in the Helios release, such as the addition of a Polar/Radar style charts, palette hashing, sorting improvements, multiple resource files and class path enhancements. The following topics will be covered:

BIRT Overview and Architecture
What is BIRT
High Level BIRT Architecture
What’s new with BIRT 2.6
- Charting Improvements
- Resource Files
- Classpath Enhancements
- Sorting Improvements
- SQL Query Builder
- View Time Variable Evaluation
- Overridden Library Properties