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| <p class="head">BIRT Project Principles</p> |
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| <h1>Project Principles</h1> |
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| Among the key principles on which this project has been initiated, |
| and will be run, are the following: |
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| <dt>Extension of the Eclipse value proposition</dt> |
| <dd>The Eclipse Project |
| has set a high standard for technical excellence, functional innovation |
| and overall extensibility within the Java IDE domain. We intend to apply |
| these same standards to the business intelligence and reporting domain. |
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| <dt>Leverage Eclipse ecosystem</dt> |
| <dd>A major goal of this project is to apply |
| the application development strengths of the Eclipse Project to the business |
| intelligence and reporting domain. The project will work closely with other |
| Eclipse project areas whenever possible to leverage the capabilities being |
| developed in those areas. |
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| <dt>Vertical solutions</dt> |
| <dd>Reporting and Business intelligence are a facet |
| of almost all applications that are developed today. A core principle of |
| this project is to provide a general purpose reporting capability that can |
| easily and seamlessly be integrated as a component of vertical applications |
| and solutions. |
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| <dt>Extensibility</dt> |
| <dd>To meet the varied requirements for reporting and |
| Business Intelligence, provide extension points that enable developers to |
| adapt the technology to meet application specific needs. |
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| <dt>Vendor neutrality</dt> |
| <dd>We aim to encourage Eclipse participation and |
| drive Eclipse market acceptance by providing vendor-neutral capabilities |
| and to encourage participation for complementary capabilities through additional |
| projects. |
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| <dt>Open, standards-based development</dt> |
| <dd>Where market adopted standards exist |
| that meet the design goals, our aim is to leverage and adhere to them. Where |
| market adopted standards do not exist, we will develop and publish any new |
| capabilities in the Eclipse open forum. |
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| <dt>Incremental delivery</dt> |
| <dd>In order to meet the pent-up demand for reporting |
| within the Java application market, a goal is to delivery functionality |
| to market as rapidly as possible via an incremental delivery model. |
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| <dt>Agile development</dt> |
| <dd>Our aim is to incorporate into our planning process |
| the innovations that arise once a project is underway, and the feedback |
| from our user community on our achievements to date. We think an agile development |
| and planning process, in which progress is incremental, near-term deliverables |
| are focused, and long-term planning is flexible, will be the best way to |
| achieve this. |
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| <dt>Inclusiveness & diversity</dt> |
| <dd>We aim to assimilate the best ideas |
| from the largest number of participants representing the needs of the widest |
| range of end-users. So we will encourage organizations across a broad range |
| of technical, market and geographical domains to participate in this project. |
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