[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to
the implementation of a universal development platform, today
announced that the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT)
project version 1.0 is now generally available. BIRT 1.0 marks the
culmination of Eclipse community participation during which
hundreds of members of the community provided their feedback to
shape the future of the project. BIRT has been downloaded 9,000
times since a preview version was made available in late
February.“The goal of BIRT is to allow Java developers to easily
integrate business intelligence and reporting capability into
enterprise Java applications and commercial products. BIRT was
created as a top level Eclipse project in September 2004. The
project is part of the Eclipse strategy to provide open source
tools and frameworks that span the software development
lifecycle…”