This book is a concise and practical guide aimed at getting the results you want as quickly as possible. It steers the reader through each point of reporting from setup, to scripting, designing, formatting, and deploying BIRT reports using a common example that runs through the book. This book is for Java developers who want to create rich reports and get started with BIRT to do this. Readers will need a basic understanding of SQL to follow along.
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John Ward
John Ward is a consultant for Innovent Solutions, specializing in BIRT and e-commerce search and navigation solutions. Prior to that, John was an Assistant Vice President for Citibank, North America, managing the training MIS group and overseeing development of new technology-based training initiatives. John actively works with and tests BIRT--an open-source reporting platform built on Eclipse--including development work based on BIRT reports and the BIRT APIs.
John Ward
John Ward is a consultant for Innovent Solutions, specializing in BIRT and e-commerce search and navigation solutions. Prior to that, John was an Assistant Vice President for Citibank, North America, managing the training MIS group and overseeing development of new technology-based training initiatives. John actively works with and tests BIRT--an open-source reporting platform built on Eclipse--including development work based on BIRT reports and the BIRT APIs.
John also maintains The Digital Voice blog at digiassn.blogspot.com
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good starter BIRT book,
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I thought this was a good starter book for the first time BIRT user. After reading this book myself, I used it as a quick start for someone on our team who was new to BIRT. This person spent about 3-4 days with the book and got a nice quick overview of BIRT, simple report design tasks, and some report deployment and integration options. This book doesn't do as deep of a technical dive as other BIRT books, especially around integration, but it is a nice high-level look at BIRT.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent introduction to a powerful tool,
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BIRT is an incredibly powerful tool to get the data out in good format. John Ward's book is an excellent primer on the capabilities and methods that make BIRT so powerful. Any powerful tool has a learning curve, and Ward makes that curve easier to negotiate.
I've been working with computers and languages for quite a while. I needed to get up to speed with the Java and web development world. Of course, the thing users want from a system are reports - getting data in is only part of the solution! BIRT supplies a tool to finish the job. Also, thanks to the dedicated and selfless team of volunteers than built, and continue to enhance BIRT, and Actuate for supporting the free open source version. It's a great business model that enhances the product while supporting companies who need confidence in a product the opportunity to obtain that level of support. The user's group is the next line of support for new and experienced users.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Reasonable book - very bad index,
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The book provides a reasonable introduction into BIRT. In several sections the examples are difficult to follow. My biggest problem with this book is that it has the worse index I have seen in a technical book. I rely on the index of a book like this to be able to quickly locate the relevant pages of a particular feature that I am trying to figure out, however, this book has such a poor index that I often would look things up in the table of contents. The index is near useless which makes this book less valuable as a reference book. Overall I was not that impressed.
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