Eclipse BIRT

The open source Eclipse BIRT reporting and data visualization project.

Website

https://eclipse.org/birt

Create a BIRT Development Environment

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Building BIRT

BIRT is built with Apache Maven through Tycho on Eclipse CI.

To build BIRT with the latest Eclipse platform, run:

mvn clean verify -DskipTests=true

Building environment

• JDK 21
• Maven 3.9.11
• https://ci.eclipse.org/birt/job/build

Latest Version 4.21.0

• https://download.eclipse.org/birt/updates/release/latest
• https://download.eclipse.org/birt/updates/release/4.21.0

Latest Snapshots towards 4.22.0

• https://download.eclipse.org/birt/updates/nightly/latest

Runtime Requirements

The current version of BIRT 4.21 is runnable with JDK:

• JDK 21 (LTS)

Tomcat version support:

• Tomcat 9.0.7x, 9.0.8x, 9.0.9x, 9.0.10x (incl. 9.0.109)
  • BIRT 4.21.0 requires Tomcat to be launched with JVM argument -add-opens=java.base/java.net=ALL-UNNAMED.
    • This can be accomplished by setting the following environment variable before starting Tomcat.
      • CATALINA_OPTS="-add-opens=java.base/java.net=ALL-UNNAMED"
    • See issue 2271.
    • See discussion 2278.
• Tomcat 10 & 11 is not supported due to Jakarta EE dependencies