Invoking BIRT Viewer from Java

Hi,

I am a newbie to BIRT and currently trying to familiarise myself with it.

My IDE is Eclipse 3.4 and BIRT v2.3.
I would like to know if a BIRT Viewer can be invoked directly from a Java class.

Thanks & Regards,
arvindraj

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Virgil Dodson

Hi arvindraj, generally, the BIRT viewer is a web application example showing how to run/view BIRT reports in a browser. This viewer is called via URLs which then uses Servlet mapping to route the request and present BIRT reports in the web.

From your Java class, you can call the BIRT Report Engine API to open report designs and turn them into HTML, PDF, XLS, etc directly from your application... however, there is not a BIRT Viewer for a standalone Java desktop application.

arvindraj

Sorry for replying late.
Thank you very much for the info, vdodson.

johnw

As an addition to what Virgil answered, you can build an RCP application, and instantiate the viewer plugin to use. But this is just in the case of an RCP application.