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| <p class="head">BIRT Project Contributors</p> |
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| <h1>Project Committers</h1> |
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| <p>Companies that are contributing committer's time to the project are:</p> |
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| <dt>Actuate</dt> |
| <dd><a href="http://www.actuate.com" target="_blank"> |
| http://www.actuate.com</a></dd> |
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| <dt>Innovent Solutions</dt> |
| <dd><a href="http://www.innoventsolutions.com" target="_blank"> |
| http://www.innoventsolutions.com</a></dd> |
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| <dt>IBM</dt> |
| <dd><a href="http://www.ibm.com" target="_blank"> |
| http://www.ibm.com</a></dd> |
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| BIRT uses the standard Eclipse process to elect new committers. The list of |
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| <a href="http://eclipse.org/birt/commit.html">here</a>. |
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| <h1>Project Participants</h1> |
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| <p>Companies or entities that are providing feedback on requirements, design |
| or testing the software:</p> |
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| <dt>Siebel</dt> |
| <dd><a href="http://www.siebel.com" target="_blank"> |
| http://www.siebel.com</a></dd> |
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| <dt>PeopleSoft</dt> |
| <dd><a href="http://www.peoplesoft.com" target="_blank"> |
| http://www.peoplesoft.com</a></dd> |
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| <dt>Data Beacon</dt> |
| <dd><a href="http://www.databeacon.com" target="_blank"> |
| http://www.databeacon.com</a></dd> |
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| <dt>Niku Corporation</dt> |
| <dd><a href="http://www.niku.com" target="_blank"> |
| http://www.niku.com</a></dd> |
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| <dt>State Street Bank</dt> |
| <dd><a href="http://www.statestreetbank.com" target="_blank"> |
| http://www.statestreetbank.com</a></dd> |
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| <dt>Accept Software Corporation</dt> |
| <dd><a href="http://www.acceptsoft.com" target="_blank"> |
| http://www.acceptsoft.com</a></dd> |
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| <dt>Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)</dt> |
| <dd><a href="http://www.sist.tsinghua.edu.cn/Article_show_eng1.asp?articleID=486" target="_blank"> |
| http://www.sist.tsinghua.edu.cn/Article_show_eng1.asp?articleID=486</a> |
| and <a href="http://www.sist.tsinghua.edu.cn/index.asp" target="_blank"> |
| http://www.sist.tsinghua.edu.cn/index.asp</a></dd> |
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| <h1>Initial Code Contribution</h1> |
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| <p>During the six months prior to the creation of the Eclipse BIRT project, |
| Actuate has been actively researching and developing capabilities that |
| correspond to the initial BIRT projects. This has involved researching |
| the requirements and needs for the XML Report Design, development of initial |
| code, and investigating utilizing existing commercial code from other |
| Actuate products. Actuate is seeding the BIRT project by donating the |
| work from this research and development. Specifically:</p> |
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| <dt>XML Report Design Schema</dt> |
| <dd>A schema for representing the data access |
| and layout aspects of reports ranging from simple listing style reports |
| through complex, highly formatted reports.</dd> |
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| <dt>Report Design Object Model Component</dt> |
| <dd>A component that encapsulates |
| the logic of resolving report element properties based on report object |
| hierarchy, style sheets and report scripting, as well as providing report |
| design read/write and persistency. A subset of the functionality with |
| unit test programs has been completed.</dd> |
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| <dt>Report Execution and Rending Engine Component</dt> |
| <dd>A component that takes |
| a report design file as input and generates various report output format |
| such as HTML, PDF, and PostScript for printing. A subset of the functionality |
| with unit test program has been completed.</dd> |
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| <dt>Report Designer</dt> |
| <dd>An Eclipse plug-in that helps users design report |
| layout through a user friendly GUI. A subset of the functionality with |
| unit test program has been completed.</dd> |
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| <p>Innovent and Actuate have 10 years of experience in the business intelligence |
| market. The BIRT project will involve a significant number of experienced |
| developers in this field and will work with the Eclipse community to build |
| on this initial code to deliver capabilities to market as soon as possible. |
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| <p>In addition to the Actuate research and development work, Actuate is working |
| with other Eclipse members to leverage existing code in other areas. |
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