Books on BIRT

sudharshan

I could see around 4 books for BIRT in amazon.com. Can someone suggest a good book to start with BIRT.

mwilliams

Hi Sudharshan,<br />
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I've gone through the "Practical Data Analysis and Reporting with BIRT" book, by John Ward. It's a good introductory tutorial for BIRT beginners. A review over that book done by Actuate/Birt-Exchange can be found here:<br />
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The Eclipse series book, "BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting", would also be a good book to have. It goes over getting started with BIRT, but also goes more in-depth into the features of BIRT.<br />
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The "Integrating and Extending BIRT" book goes more into the BIRT framework, scripting, and the APIs. Not really for learning all the basic functionalities of BIRT.<br />
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I have not seen the 4th book that is on Amazon, so I cannot comment on it. Maybe somebody else on here has used it and can comment.<br />
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Hope this helps you in your decision.<br />
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Regards,<br />
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Michael