The award winning
Award
BIRT for Beginners Readers Area
BIRTReporting Members Area
Register
Change Password
How to Install BIRT
In under 30 minutes
In this 30 minute BIRT installation tutorial video I take you through a complete installation of open source BIRT in real time on Windows.
The walk-
Installation of Java runtime
Installation of Eclipse open source IDE
Creation of desktop shortcut to launch Eclipse with correct Java runtime
Starting Eclipse and setting the workspace
Adding the BIRT perspective to Eclipse IDE
Insallation of the JTDS Driver for MS SQL Server
Loading the JTDS driver into BIRT
Overcoming problems connecting to SQL Server
Starting a project to report against SQL server
Starting a report within the project
Setting up a data source and Data set
Designing a simple test report to ensure your installation is working
Installing Apache Tomcat
Installing BIRT runtime into Tomcat
Installing the JTDS driver into Tomcat
Installing Commons Logging component into Tomcat
Installing a test report into the Tomcat server
Running your test report in a web browser
Comes complete on computer playable MP4 video file on CD with free Getting Started with BIRT companion guide including download locations for all the files and software you will need.
This is the complete package for anyone who wants to learn how to install BIRT quickly and painlessly and be up and running creating their own reports in half an hour!
Sent by post (Free shipping)
Immediate Download Version
View your shopping cart