In this chapter, we looked at some of the scripting capabilities that BIRT has to offer with Expressions and Event handlers. We looked at the different report contexts that are available for accessing properties and methods in BIRT report designs, adding and removing report elements dynamically, and finally we looked at how to use Java objects as Event handlers.

This touches on the BIRT API, which is a large topic and beyond the scope of this book. But it gets the reader familiar with some of the things that are possible with the scripting and API environments that BIRT provides. More information can be gathered from the Eclipse website and newsgroups, the BirtWorld blog, and my website.

The final part of this book will look at deploying BIRT reports.