Welcome to the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project pages. The Eclipse BIRT Project is an open source Top Level Project of the Eclipse Foundation. The Project Charter describes the organization of the project, roles and responsibilities of the participants, and top-level development process for the project. The Top Level Project is overseen by a Project Management Committee (PMC). The PMC organizes the Top-Level Project into Projects coordinating identified resources of the Projects against a Development Plan and working against a CVS repository.
The BIRT project addresses a wide range of reporting needs within a typical Java application. Reporting capabilities in an application are often implemented in an ad hoc fashion by the application developer, using technology that is not ideally suited to the task, or through the development of a one-off solution for that application. This is expensive and time-consuming, and provides limited reporting capabilities for the end users of the application. BIRT addresses this problem by providing Eclipse-based open source and extensible tools and frameworks that allow developers to easily incorporate reporting functionality within their applications.
We encourage active participation in the BIRT project - read on and get involved through the BIRT Developer Center Forums, BIRT newsgroup, and the Eclipse Development Process.
The rest of these pages provide information for people who want to know more about the BIRT project, how it runs and how to contribute. For help using BIRT, see the Documentation section or the design and deployment guides on the the BIRT Developer Center.
The material here is for people who want know more about the BIRT project or who wish to contribute to BIRT.
The BIRT Project leverages and follows the processes used by the Eclipse Platform projects and others within the Eclipse Foundation. Below are links to help answer frequently asked questions in this area.
The BIRT PMC meets weekly. All minutes are posted to the BIRT Wiki.
Projects within BIRT include the following: