About libraries in BIRT home

The lib subdirectory of the BIRT home directory contains JAR files providing BIRT API classes and classes that support the APIs. This location within the report engine ensures that the class loader of the application server or JVM in which you deploy the report engine can locate the libraries. Depending on the requirements of your reporting application and the items in your report designs, you can omit libraries that provide functionality that the application and designs do not use.

Table 12-1 Libraries in the BIRT home lib directory
Library	Description
chartengineapi.jar	Contains chart model and factory API classes. Supports generation of charts in a report.
chartexamplescoreapi.jar	Contains classes providing an example of a charting extension.
chartitemapi.jar	Contains the classes for the chart report item.
com.ibm.icu_<version> .jar	Provides International Components for Unicode to support text in multiple locales.
commons-cli-<version> .jar	Provides command-line parsing. Used by the report.engine. ReportRunner class.
coreapi.jar	Contains framework and utility API classes.
crosstabcoreapi.jar	Contains cross-tab API classes.
dataadapterapi.jar	Contains data adapter classes.
dataaggregationapi.jar	Contains the data aggregation API class.
dataextraction.jar	Contains classes for extracting report contents to comma-separated values (CSV) format.
dteapi.jar	Provides API access to data sources. Transforms data that the data set provides.
emitterconfig.jar	Contains classes to support custom emitters.
engineapi.jar	Contains API classes for generating a report from a design.
flute.jar	Used by the report.model plug-in. Provides access to CSS functionality.
js.jar	Provides scripting functionality.
modelapi.jar	Contains report design element API classes.
modelodaapi.jar	Used for conversions between ROM elements and required Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) Open Data Access (ODA) elements.
odadesignapi.jar	Used when retrieving data.
org.apache.commons .codec-<version>.jar	Used by the report.engine plug-in. Provides encoding and decoding functionality.
org.eclipse.emf.common _<version>.jar	Required for charts.
org.eclipse.emf.ecore .xmi_<version>.jar	Required for charts.
org.eclipse.emf.ecore _<version>.jar	Required for charts.
org.w3c.css.sac _<version>.jar	Used by the report.model plug-in. Required for CSS functionality.
scriptapi.jar	Contains API classes for Java-based scripting.