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The open source Eclipse BIRT reporting and data visualization project.

Website

https://eclipse.org/birt

Create a BIRT Development Environment

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

Latest Version 4.24.0

Latest Snapshots towards 4.25.0

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

Runtime Requirements

The current version 4.24 is runnable with JDK:

JDK 21 (LTS)

Tomcat version support:

Tomcat 10
Tomcat 11 is untested. Please report any issues

Pre 4.23

Tomcat 9.0.7x, 9.0.8x, 9.0.9x, 9.0.10x (incl. 9.0.109)
- BIRT 4.22.0 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.