Integrating and Extending BIRT

Chapter 9: Using JavaScript to Write an Event Handler 127 Using BIRT Report Designer to enter a JavaScript event handler 127 Using the reportContext object 130 Using the this object 135 Using the row object 138 Getting column information 139 Getting and altering the query string 140 Changing the connection properties of a data source 140 Getting a parameter value 141 Determining method execution sequence 142 Tutorial 1: Writing an event handler in JavaScript 144 JavaScript event handler examples 149 Calling Java from JavaScript 151 Calling the method of a class that resides in a plug-in 153 Chapter 10: Using Java to Write an Event Handler 155 Writing a Java event handler class 155 Writing a Java event handler 161 Understanding the BIRT interfaces 166 Java event handler example 173 Debugging a Java event handler 180 Chapter 11: Working with Chart Event Handlers 183 Chart events overview 183 Understanding when chart events trigger 185 Writing a Java chart event handler 204 Writing a JavaScript chart event handler 208 Using the simplified charting API 211 Chapter 12: Accessing Data Programmatically 217 Using a Scripted Data Source 217 Tutorial 2: Creating and scripting a scripted data source 219 Creating a web services data source using a custom connection class 228 Part IV: Integrating BIRT Functionality into Applications 233 Chapter 13: Understanding the BIRT APIs 235 Package hierarchy diagrams 236 About the BIRT Report Engine API 237 About the Design Engine API 244 About the BIRT Chart Engine API .257 Chapter 14: Programming using the BIRT Reporting APIs 275 Building a reporting application 276 Generating reports from an application 279 Programming with a report design 302 Chapter 15: Programming using the BIRT Charting API 321 About the chart engine contents 321 About the environment for charting application 322 Using the charting API to modify an existing chart 324 Using the charting APIs to create a new chart 330 Using a chart item in a report design 336 Using the BIRT charting API in a Java Swing application 345 Understanding the chart programming examples 351 Part V: Working with the Extension Framework 359 Chapter 16: Building the BIRT Project 361 About building the BIRT project 361 Installing a working version of BIRT 362 Configuring the Eclipse workspace to compile BIRT 362 Downloading and extracting the correct version of the BIRT source code 364 Importing, building, and testing the BIRT project 364 Building new JAR files to display BIRT output 367 Chapter 17: Extending BIRT 369 Overview of the extension framework 369 Understanding the structure of a BIRT plug-in 370 Working with the Eclipse PDE 377 Creating the structure of a plug-in extension 381 Creating the plug-in extension content 385 Building a plug-in extension 390 Deploying the extension plug-in 393 Downloading the code for the extension examples 398 Chapter 18: Developing a Report Item Extension 399 Understanding a report item extension 399 Developing the sample report item extension 401 Understanding the rotated label report item extension 418 Deploying and testing the rotated label report item plug-in 428 Chapter 19: Developing a Report Rendering Extension 433 Understanding a report rendering extension 433 Developing a CSV report rendering extension 434 Developing an XML report rendering extension 462 Chapter 20: Developing an ODA Extension 477 Understanding an ODA extension 478 Developing the CSV ODA driver extensions 479 Implementing the CSV ODA driver plug-in 481 Understanding the sample CSV ODA driver extension 491 Developing the CSV ODA UI extension 500 Understanding the sample CSV ODA UI extension 509 Testing the CSV ODA UI plug-in 519 Developing a Hibernate ODA extension 524 Chapter 21: Developing a Fragment 571 Understanding a fragment 571 Developing the sample fragment 572 Creating a fragment project 573 Understanding the sample fragment 576 Building, deploying, and testing a fragment 577 Glossary 583 Index 645