Security Integration

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.

The BIRT Viewer has two extension points allowing developers to integrate authentication and authorization with an application

Single Sign-on with Applications - allows developers to plug in a custom security adapter which handles single-sign-on integration for applications
Repository authorization integration - allows developers to create a custom access manager which controls what reports users can access.