Recently I gave a presentation on BIRT at the Actuate International Users Conference. One of the things I discussed was embedding the BIRT Design Engine API into an application. This is an often overlooked aspect of BIRT, since most discussions center around report creation using the Eclipse editor and the BIRT Report Engine. I figured it would be cool to do something with the design engine as well. This is useful if your users would like to create their own simple, custom reports and you would like to give them that functionality. There are already products out there that are built on this concept.
The BIRT Design engine is actually a fairly simple API to use. It is part of the org.eclipse.birt.report.model.api package. The steps for creating a report using the API are illustrated below.
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