Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) that provides understanding and structure in a fast paced, task driven and tutorial style. Practical Data Analysis and Reporting with BIRT focuses on the most visible and familiar product built with the BIRT framework, which is the BIRT Report Designer.
BIRT, which stands for Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools, is an Eclipse-based open source software project that provides reporting and business intelligence capabilities for rich client and web applications, especially those based on Java and J2EE. BIRT is in fact a collection of development tools and technologies used for developing reports utilizing the BIRT runtime framework component on an application server. BIRT has two main components: a visual report designer within the Eclipse IDE for creating BIRT Reports, and a runtime component for generating reports that can be deployed to any Java environment.
This book has a fast-paced, task-driven, tutorial style, which provides understanding and structure, not just lists of steps to follow. The focus is on the most visible and familiar product built with the BIRT framework, which is the BIRT Report Designer. The BIRT Report Designer is an Eclipse plug-in that utilizes BIRT technologies to allow users to design reports in the BIRT document format. Also covered is the BIRT charting engine, which lets you add charts to your application.
Java developers who want to get reporting as quickly as possible will find this book useful. The book is published by Packt and is available now. For more information, please visit: http://www.packtpub.com/practical-data-analysis-reporting-with-birt/book
Pete Muir has
announced the release of Seam 2.0.2.GA. For this release he says:
"This release focuses on stability, component updates and documentation improvements. We've fixed over 150 bugs since Seam 2 was released back in November, and, with over 70 000 downloads since then, Seam 2 has had pretty good exposure."
Seam is a compelling framework for developing web applications based upon EJB3, JPA and JSF. Full support for developing Seam applications within Eclipse is provided via the
JBoss Tools project and in NetBeans via the
Facelets Plugin.
This latest release of Seam can be downloaded from
Sourceforge.
Packt Publishing, the publisher of computer related books, announced the release of its new book OpenCMS 7 Development.
OpenCms is a professional-level open-source Website Content Management System, based on Java and XML. Many companies or organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the standard OpenCms application. Thankfully, OpenCms can be used by Java developers to create sophisticated add-ons and customizations that extend the power of OpenCms in virtually unlimited directions.
Targeting version 7 of OpenCms, this book is for Java developers interested in extending and further customizing OpenCms through its Java API.
Starting by showing how to set up a development environment for OpenCms work, the book moves you through various tasks of increasing complexity. Some of the common tasks covered are building OpenCms, XML asset type development, templating, module development, user and role setup, and search integration. In addition to these common tasks some more advanced topics are covered such as self-registering users, RSS support, developing custom widgets and extending the administrative interface. All the topics include examples and are presented while building a sample blog site.
The book is for Java developers with a basic knowledge of the operations of OpenCms. No previous experience of developing OpenCms is expected.
JGAP is a sophisticated Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming package written in Java.
JGAP version 3.3.3 is an extensive release, featuring basically the following:
* The evolution cycle has been revamped and simplified for a better understanding
* A lot of smaller enhancements and architectural improvements, see the change log
* Some bugs have been fixed
* The basic MinimizingMakeChange example was simplified
* Improved grid computing by adding new classes and features
* Javadoc-enhancements
* New JUnit tests
For more information visit the JGAP homepage at
http://jgap.sf.netKlaus Meffert for the JGAP team
