About an Deployment Kit
An Deployment Kit is an end-user product that you use to run, view, and print reports. Deployment Kit connects to and stores the reports on the file system. It also integrates with report viewers and BIRT Report Studio.
Deployment Kit is not an authoring tool for reports. report design tools, like e.Spreadsheet Designer or BIRT Report Designer, create the reports. Typically, your Deployment Kit administrator publishes reports to the file system. Deployment Kit is therefore not dependant upon a particular report design tool, freeing report developers to create reports in their own fashion.Deployment Kit handles file management, security, and versioning manually.
All you need is a web browser and the command to access the Deployment Kit. To use Deployment Kit, you must use Internet Explorer 7.x, Mozilla Firefox 2.x, or Mozilla Firefox 3.x or later.
You manage, generate, and view reports remotely or locally using the files and folders page in a web browser. Locally, any of the report design tools can perform these tasks as well.
When you are using Deployment Kit, the files and folders page appears as shown in Figure 1-1.
Figure 1-1 Files and folders pageFigure 1-2 shows a high-level view of how client applications interact with Deployment Kit. The shaded areas indicate the tools with which you work.
Figure 1-2 Reporting architecture