The BIRT Viewer contains the functionality of the Eclipse BIRT Sample Viewer and adds performance and usability improvements for more demanding BIRT Reports. It adds the ability for a BIRT report to handle interactive Flash objects, view quicker with progressive report viewing and temporary file management, and easily integrate security. It is URL-compatible with the Eclipse BIRT Sample Viewer so that it can access reports built for it.
BIRT Viewer is implemented as a viewing service of the BIRT iServer. For BIRT ISV’s and SaaS vendors wishing to include BIRT Viewer in their product, it can be embedded as a component or with the BIRT Deployment Kit.
BIRT Viewer includes two features that make large or complex BIRT reports deliver content to the user faster to reduce report run wait time and improve the user experience.
Progressive Report Viewing - brings report pages over the network to be displayed as they are generated so that initial pages can be viewed as others are still being generated.
Built-in temporary files/transient store management - efficiently handles temporary files so that they do not degrade server, network or client performance.