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 <p class="head">BIRT 1.0 Project Plan</p>
 <p class="subhead">Last revised 16 February, 2005</p>

 <h1>Introduction</h1>

 <p>This document lays out the plans for the first feature release
 of the Eclipse BIRT project.

 <p>Plans do not materialize out of nowhere, nor are they entirely static. To
 ensure the planning process is transparent and open to the entire Eclipse
 community, plans are posted in an embryonic form and then revised from time to
 time throughout the release cycle.

 <p>The first part of the plan deals with the important matters of release
 deliverables, release milestones, target operating environments, and
 release-to-release compatibility. These are all things that need to be clear for
 any release, even if no features were to change.

 <p>Please send comments about this draft plan to the
 <a href="mailto:birt-dev@eclipse.org">BIRT developer mailing list</a>.</p>

 <h1>Release Deliverables</h1>

 <p>The release deliverables are:

 <ul>
   <li>Source code release for Eclipse BIRT, available as versions tagged
   &quot;R1&quot; in the eclipse.org
   <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/?cvsroot=BIRT_Project">
   CVS repository for BIRT </a>. </li>
   <li>Eclipse BIRT Report Designer 1.0</li>
   <li>Eclipse BIRT Report Engine 1.0</li>
   <li>Eclipse BIRT Chart Component 1.0 </li>
   </ul>

 <h1>Release Milestones</h1>

 <p>The Eclipse BIRT 1.0 release is targeted for general availability on
 May 15th, 2005. All release deliverables will be available for download
 as soon as the release has been tested and validated in the target operating
 configurations listed below.</p>

 <p>Release milestones:</p>

 <ul>
   <li>Feb. 28, 2005: Preview of BIRT 1.0 Release - Preview of BIRT Report
   Designer; BIRT Report Engine and BIRT Chart Component for community feedback.</li>
   <li>Feb. 28 - May 15, 2005: Updated stable builds approximately every 2
   weeks to address identified defects and complete features planned for 1.0 release. </li>
   <li>May 15, 2005: BIRT 1.0 Release - BIRT Report Designer; BIRT Report
   Engine and BIRT Chart Component.</li>
 </ul>

 <h1>Target Operating Environments</h1>

 <p>In order to remain current, each release of an Eclipse project targets
 reasonably current
 versions of underlying operating environments and other Eclipse projects on
 which it depends.</p>

 <p>Most of Eclipse is &quot;pure&quot; Java<sup>TM</sup> code and has no direct
 dependence on the underlying operating system. The chief dependence is on the
 Eclipse Platform, and on the Java 2 Platform that runs it.</p>

 <p>The Eclipse BIRT 1.0 release depends on the following:</p>

 <ul>
   <li>Java 2 Platform Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development
   Kit (JDK) version 1.4.2</li>
   <li>Eclipse Platform 3.0.1 </li>
   <li>Graphical Editor Framework (GEF) 3.0.1 </li>
 </ul>

 <p> The 1.0 release of BIRT is designed to run on any configuration
 supporting the above components.</p>

 <p>The Eclipse Platform runs in a variety of operating environments. Testing is
 focused on a handful of popular
 combinations of operating system and Java 2 Platform; these
 are our <em>reference platforms</em>. Eclipse BIRT undoubtedly runs fine in many
 operating environments beyond the reference platforms we test. However, since we
 do not systematically test them we cannot vouch for them. Problems encountered
 when running Eclipse on non-reference platform that cannot be recreated on any
 reference platform will be given lower priority than problems with running
 Eclipse on a reference platform.</p>

 <p>For BIRT 1.0, the project team plans to tests and validate the
  following reference platforms:</p>

 <table border="1">
   <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
     <th colspan="4">
       <div align="center">
         <b><font size="+1">BIRT Report Designer  Reference Platforms</font></b>
       </div>
     </th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td width="205"><b>Operating system</b></td>
     <td width="76"><b>Processor architecture</b></td>
     <td width="59"><b>Window system</b></td>
     <td width="453"><b>Java 2 Platform</b></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Microsoft Windows XP </td>
     <td>Intel x86 </td>
     <td>Win32</td>
     <td>Sun Java 2 Standard Edition, version 1.4.2</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Microsoft WIndows XP </td>
     <td>Intel x86 </td>
     <td>Win32</td>
     <td>IBM SDK 1.4.2 </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3.0 </td>
     <td>Intel x86 </td>
     <td>GTK</td>
     <td>Sun Java 2 Standard Edition, version 1.4.2</td>
   </tr>
 </table>

 <br>

 <table border="1">
   <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
     <th colspan="4"> <div align="center"> <b><font size="+1">BIRT Report Engine and Chart Component Reference Platforms</font></b> </div></th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td width="205"><b>Operating system</b></td>
     <td width="76"><b>Processor architecture</b></td>
     <td width="59"><b>Window system</b></td>
     <td width="453"><b>Java 2 Platform</b></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Microsoft Windows XP </td>
     <td>Intel x86 </td>
     <td>Win32*</td>
     <td>Sun Java 2 Standard Edition, version 1.4.2</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Microsoft WIndows XP </td>
     <td>Intel x86 </td>
     <td>Win32*</td>
     <td>IBM SDK 1.4.2 </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Microsoft Windows Server 2003 </td>
     <td>Intel x86</td>
     <td>Win32*</td>
     <td>Sun Java 2 Standard Edition, version 1.4.2</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Microsoft Windows Server 2003</td>
     <td>Intel x86 </td>
     <td>Win32*</td>
     <td>IBM SDK 1.4.2 </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3.0 </td>
     <td>Intel x86 </td>
     <td>GTK*</td>
     <td>Sun Java 2 Standard Edition, version 1.4.2</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>IBM AIX 5L 5.2 </td>
     <td>POWER</td>
     <td>Motif*</td>
     <td>IBM SDK 1.4.2</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Sun Solaris 9 </td>
     <td>UltraSPARC</td>
     <td>Motif*</td>
     <td>Sun Java 2 Standard Edition, version 1.4.2</td>
   </tr>
 </table>

 <p>* Window system only required when displaying charts within SWT or
 SWING windows. </p>

 <table border="1">
   <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
     <th width="808"> <div align="center"> <b><font size="+1">BIRT JDBC Reference Platforms</font></b> </div></th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td> MySQL Connector/J 3.x JDBC driver</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td> Cloudscape ( Derby) V5.1 JDBC driver </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td> DataDirect Connect for JDBC 3.4</td>
   </tr>
 </table>
 <br>

 <table border="1">
   <tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
     <th width="808"> <div align="center"> <b><font size="+1">BIRT Browsers and Viewers Reference Platforms </font></b></div></th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Mozilla Firefox 1.0 </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td> Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td><p>Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 </p></td>
   </tr>
 </table>

 <h1>Internationalization</h1>

 <p> Eclipse is designed as the basis for internationalized products.
 The user interface elements provided by the various Eclipse projects, including
 dialogs and error messages, are externalized. The English strings for BIRT
 are provided
 as the default resource bundles. Translations are not provided with this
 release. However, the plug-in fragment mechanism provides the means by which translations into any number of
 other languages can be incorporated.</p>

 <h1>Compatibility with Previous Releases</h1>

 <p>This is the first release of the Eclipse BIRT project, so compatibility
 with previous releases is not applicable. However, this section is retained
 in order to provide general forward looking guidelines regarding compatibility
 with future releases of BIRT.</p>

 <p>In general, the BIRT project aims to provide strong upward compatibility
 with future BIRT releases. However, as a 1.0 release, community feedback may
 dictate that some upward compatibility can not be supported in favor of advancing
 the capabilities of BIRT to meet the needs of the community.</p>

 <h1>Themes</h1>

 <p>As a new project within the Eclipse Foundation, the BIRT project's
 overriding release 1.0 theme is to extend the Eclipse platform to provide
 infrastructure and tools that allow application developers to design,
 deploy, generate and view reports within their applications. In this context,
 the BIRT project also adopts and supports key themes within the overall Eclipse
 planning process:</p>

 <dl class="bold-list">
 <dt>Appealing to a Broader Community</dt>
 <dd>BIRT will address a new problem space for Eclipse that broadens the appeal
 of the Eclipse platform. By addressing this new market for Eclipse, BIRT aims
 to bring a new class of developers - report developers - into the Eclipse
 community.</dd>

 <dt>Simple to Use</dt>
 <dd>From the outset, the BIRT project regards ease-of-use to be a key objective
 for the project. Reporting technology is used by a broad range of users with a
 wide variety of skill sets - therefore the tool needs to be approachable and
 intuitive. The BIRT project team are focused on ensuring that users can quickly
 become productive with the technology.</dd>

 <dt>Enterprise Ready</dt>
 <dd>BIRT 1.0 will leverage the surrounding Eclipse infrastructure for Enterprise
 activities such as source code management and deployment of BIRT reports in the
 application. In addition, the initial release of BIRT will provide for support
 for key enterprise data bases such as Oracle and DB2.</dd>

 <dt>Design for Extensibility: Be a Better Platform</dt>
 <dd>Extensibility is a core principle behind the BIRT project. Extensibility will
 be supported in a number of areas: data access (both design time and runtime);
 report output formats; chart types; report components; and business logic.</dd>
 </dl>

 <p>In addition to these goals, the BIRT PMC want to ensure that the initial
 release of BIRT provides usable value to Java application developers. Even at the
 1.0 release level, the BIRT PMC has targeted common report types and a very
 approachable user interface design to ensure the release is immediately appealing
 to the Java development community. For full details on the content of the release,
 see the <A href="R1_Requirements.pdf">Release 1.0 BIRT
 Requirements</A>.</p>

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	<body>

	<p class="head">BIRT 1.0 Project Plan</p>
	<p class="subhead">Last revised 16 February, 2005</p>

	<h1>Introduction</h1>

	<p>This document lays out the plans for the first feature release
	of the Eclipse BIRT project.

	<p>Plans do not materialize out of nowhere, nor are they entirely static. To
	ensure the planning process is transparent and open to the entire Eclipse
	community, plans are posted in an embryonic form and then revised from time to
	time throughout the release cycle.

	<p>The first part of the plan deals with the important matters of release
	deliverables, release milestones, target operating environments, and
	release-to-release compatibility. These are all things that need to be clear for
	any release, even if no features were to change.

	<p>Please send comments about this draft plan to the
	<a href="mailto:birt-dev@eclipse.org">BIRT developer mailing list</a>.</p>

	<h1>Release Deliverables</h1>

	<p>The release deliverables are:

	<ul>
	<li>Source code release for Eclipse BIRT, available as versions tagged
	"R1" in the eclipse.org
	<a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/?cvsroot=BIRT_Project">
	CVS repository for BIRT </a>. </li>
	<li>Eclipse BIRT Report Designer 1.0</li>
	<li>Eclipse BIRT Report Engine 1.0</li>
	<li>Eclipse BIRT Chart Component 1.0 </li>
	</ul>

	<h1>Release Milestones</h1>

	<p>The Eclipse BIRT 1.0 release is targeted for general availability on
	May 15th, 2005. All release deliverables will be available for download
	as soon as the release has been tested and validated in the target operating
	configurations listed below.</p>

	<p>Release milestones:</p>

	<ul>
	<li>Feb. 28, 2005: Preview of BIRT 1.0 Release - Preview of BIRT Report
	Designer; BIRT Report Engine and BIRT Chart Component for community feedback.</li>
	<li>Feb. 28 - May 15, 2005: Updated stable builds approximately every 2
	weeks to address identified defects and complete features planned for 1.0 release. </li>
	<li>May 15, 2005: BIRT 1.0 Release - BIRT Report Designer; BIRT Report
	Engine and BIRT Chart Component.</li>
	</ul>

	<h1>Target Operating Environments</h1>

	<p>In order to remain current, each release of an Eclipse project targets
	reasonably current
	versions of underlying operating environments and other Eclipse projects on
	which it depends.</p>

	<p>Most of Eclipse is "pure" Java<sup>TM</sup> code and has no direct
	dependence on the underlying operating system. The chief dependence is on the
	Eclipse Platform, and on the Java 2 Platform that runs it.</p>

	<p>The Eclipse BIRT 1.0 release depends on the following:</p>

	<ul>
	<li>Java 2 Platform Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development
	Kit (JDK) version 1.4.2</li>
	<li>Eclipse Platform 3.0.1 </li>
	<li>Graphical Editor Framework (GEF) 3.0.1 </li>
	</ul>

	<p> The 1.0 release of BIRT is designed to run on any configuration
	supporting the above components.</p>

	<p>The Eclipse Platform runs in a variety of operating environments. Testing is
	focused on a handful of popular
	combinations of operating system and Java 2 Platform; these
	are our <em>reference platforms</em>. Eclipse BIRT undoubtedly runs fine in many
	operating environments beyond the reference platforms we test. However, since we
	do not systematically test them we cannot vouch for them. Problems encountered
	when running Eclipse on non-reference platform that cannot be recreated on any
	reference platform will be given lower priority than problems with running
	Eclipse on a reference platform.</p>

	<p>For BIRT 1.0, the project team plans to tests and validate the
	following reference platforms:</p>

	<table border="1">
	<tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
	<th colspan="4">
	<div align="center">
	<b><font size="+1">BIRT Report Designer Reference Platforms</font></b>
	</div>
	</th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td width="205"><b>Operating system</b></td>
	<td width="76"><b>Processor architecture</b></td>
	<td width="59"><b>Window system</b></td>
	<td width="453"><b>Java 2 Platform</b></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Microsoft Windows XP </td>
	<td>Intel x86 </td>
	<td>Win32</td>
	<td>Sun Java 2 Standard Edition, version 1.4.2</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Microsoft WIndows XP </td>
	<td>Intel x86 </td>
	<td>Win32</td>
	<td>IBM SDK 1.4.2 </td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3.0 </td>
	<td>Intel x86 </td>
	<td>GTK</td>
	<td>Sun Java 2 Standard Edition, version 1.4.2</td>
	</tr>
	</table>

	<br>

	<table border="1">
	<tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
	<th colspan="4"> <div align="center"> <b><font size="+1">BIRT Report Engine and Chart Component Reference Platforms</font></b> </div></th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td width="205"><b>Operating system</b></td>
	<td width="76"><b>Processor architecture</b></td>
	<td width="59"><b>Window system</b></td>
	<td width="453"><b>Java 2 Platform</b></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Microsoft Windows XP </td>
	<td>Intel x86 </td>
	<td>Win32*</td>
	<td>Sun Java 2 Standard Edition, version 1.4.2</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Microsoft WIndows XP </td>
	<td>Intel x86 </td>
	<td>Win32*</td>
	<td>IBM SDK 1.4.2 </td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Microsoft Windows Server 2003 </td>
	<td>Intel x86</td>
	<td>Win32*</td>
	<td>Sun Java 2 Standard Edition, version 1.4.2</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Microsoft Windows Server 2003</td>
	<td>Intel x86 </td>
	<td>Win32*</td>
	<td>IBM SDK 1.4.2 </td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3.0 </td>
	<td>Intel x86 </td>
	<td>GTK*</td>
	<td>Sun Java 2 Standard Edition, version 1.4.2</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>IBM AIX 5L 5.2 </td>
	<td>POWER</td>
	<td>Motif*</td>
	<td>IBM SDK 1.4.2</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Sun Solaris 9 </td>
	<td>UltraSPARC</td>
	<td>Motif*</td>
	<td>Sun Java 2 Standard Edition, version 1.4.2</td>
	</tr>
	</table>

	<p>* Window system only required when displaying charts within SWT or
	SWING windows. </p>

	<table border="1">
	<tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
	<th width="808"> <div align="center"> <b><font size="+1">BIRT JDBC Reference Platforms</font></b> </div></th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td> MySQL Connector/J 3.x JDBC driver</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td> Cloudscape ( Derby) V5.1 JDBC driver </td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td> DataDirect Connect for JDBC 3.4</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	<br>

	<table border="1">
	<tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
	<th width="808"> <div align="center"> <b><font size="+1">BIRT Browsers and Viewers Reference Platforms </font></b></div></th>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td>Mozilla Firefox 1.0 </td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td> Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 </td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td><p>Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 </p></td>
	</tr>
	</table>

	<h1>Internationalization</h1>

	<p> Eclipse is designed as the basis for internationalized products.
	The user interface elements provided by the various Eclipse projects, including
	dialogs and error messages, are externalized. The English strings for BIRT
	are provided
	as the default resource bundles. Translations are not provided with this
	release. However, the plug-in fragment mechanism provides the means by which translations into any number of
	other languages can be incorporated.</p>

	<h1>Compatibility with Previous Releases</h1>

	<p>This is the first release of the Eclipse BIRT project, so compatibility
	with previous releases is not applicable. However, this section is retained
	in order to provide general forward looking guidelines regarding compatibility
	with future releases of BIRT.</p>

	<p>In general, the BIRT project aims to provide strong upward compatibility
	with future BIRT releases. However, as a 1.0 release, community feedback may
	dictate that some upward compatibility can not be supported in favor of advancing
	the capabilities of BIRT to meet the needs of the community.</p>

	<h1>Themes</h1>

	<p>As a new project within the Eclipse Foundation, the BIRT project's
	overriding release 1.0 theme is to extend the Eclipse platform to provide
	infrastructure and tools that allow application developers to design,
	deploy, generate and view reports within their applications. In this context,
	the BIRT project also adopts and supports key themes within the overall Eclipse
	planning process:</p>

	<dl class="bold-list">
	<dt>Appealing to a Broader Community</dt>
	<dd>BIRT will address a new problem space for Eclipse that broadens the appeal
	of the Eclipse platform. By addressing this new market for Eclipse, BIRT aims
	to bring a new class of developers - report developers - into the Eclipse
	community.</dd>

	<dt>Simple to Use</dt>
	<dd>From the outset, the BIRT project regards ease-of-use to be a key objective
	for the project. Reporting technology is used by a broad range of users with a
	wide variety of skill sets - therefore the tool needs to be approachable and
	intuitive. The BIRT project team are focused on ensuring that users can quickly
	become productive with the technology.</dd>

	<dt>Enterprise Ready</dt>
	<dd>BIRT 1.0 will leverage the surrounding Eclipse infrastructure for Enterprise
	activities such as source code management and deployment of BIRT reports in the
	application. In addition, the initial release of BIRT will provide for support
	for key enterprise data bases such as Oracle and DB2.</dd>

	<dt>Design for Extensibility: Be a Better Platform</dt>
	<dd>Extensibility is a core principle behind the BIRT project. Extensibility will
	be supported in a number of areas: data access (both design time and runtime);
	report output formats; chart types; report components; and business logic.</dd>
	</dl>

	<p>In addition to these goals, the BIRT PMC want to ensure that the initial
	release of BIRT provides usable value to Java application developers. Even at the
	1.0 release level, the BIRT PMC has targeted common report types and a very
	approachable user interface design to ensure the release is immediately appealing
	to the Java development community. For full details on the content of the release,
	see the <A href="R1_Requirements.pdf">Release 1.0 BIRT
	Requirements</A>.</p>

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