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Second Edition BIRT Books Now Available

August 11, 2008 — vdodson (Views: 4673)

BIRT Book Field Guide      BIRT Book Integrating

Two popular books, BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting and Integrating and Extending BIRT, have been updated.  These books are now on their second edition and each include many more pages and examples.

The first book, BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting, includes 109 more pages than the previous edition and covers several of the latest product features, including cross tabs and OLAP cubes, new chart types, web services as a data source, new report output formats, using CSS files, and localization of reports.  We found the second edition of this book at Amazon and informIT.

The second book, Integrating and Extending BIRT, includes 136 more pages and includes several new architectural diagrams and covers report and chart scripting, BIRT tag libraries, using the BIRT Web Viewer, JNDI support, an ODA plugin example, and lots more.  We also found the second edition of this book at Amazon and informIT.

Filed under: Designing BIRT Reports, Deploying Reports, New Stuff, BIRT in the Wild

3 Comments
Comment by jjfeigal:
August 12, 2008 @ 8:56 am PST

What version of BIRT are the Second Edition books in sync with - 2.2.2, 2.3, or an earlier version?

Comment by vdodson:
August 12, 2008 @ 9:17 am PST

Hi jjfeigal,

The second edition is in sync with BIRT version 2.2.1. As of today, there are no books that describe the BIRT 2.3 features… but you can watch a video of those features at http://www.birt-exchange.com/news-events/webinar/designing-birt-reports/373-what-039-s-new-with-birt-2-3-archived-webinar-/

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Virgil Dodson is a Java Reporting Evangelist at Actuate Corporation. Virgil has over 12 years experience as a software developer. For the past 5 years he has helped Java developers get started with Actuate's embedded reporting products. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from DeVry.
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