BIRT + HIBERNATE example

Example application of BIRT usage with Hibernate data sources (using POJO data source), based on clibernate project.

More information and approach description is here.

BIRT report

Birt report workspace is in /eclipse directory. Start BIRT 4.4.1 designer (Luna) and select this directory as the workspace to start playing around the report.

Building and testing

1. mvn package builds everything with libraries and the /eclipse/report/company.rptdesign built-in.
2. java -jar birtexample-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar displays general help.
3. java -jar birtexample-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar birtExample displays BIRT service help.

Example

1. java -jar birtexample-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar -a 10 birtExample adds 10 random companies to DB.
2. java -jar birtexample-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar -l birtExample lists objects from database.
3. java -jar birtexample-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar -r companies.pdf birtExample renders the report from template using your data from the database.