Business Objects Unveils Crystal Reports for Eclipse
Business Objects, a provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced the availability of Crystal Reports for Eclipse. The company claims this new version of Crystal Reports provides a 100 percent Java-based report design and deployment environment for application developers. Now developers building applications in the Eclipse development environment can simply embed Crystal Reports into those applications. By making Crystal Reports available to the Eclipse community, Business Objects is hoping to make it easier for companies to create rich reporting solutions that help monitor and improve their business performance.
Starting with Microsoft Visual Basic over 14 years ago, Crystal Reports has provided embedded reporting directly within a wide range of IDEs. Today, Crystal Reports is integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, IBM Rational Application Developer, BEA Workshop, and Borland JBuilder. "As a Java developer using Eclipse, I am thrilled that Crystal Reports can now be a part of my everyday development environment," said Jessica King, programmer at Manufacturing Performance Services. Since making the beta version of Crystal Reports for Eclipse available in January of 2006, there have been over 50,000 downloads of the preview software from over 120 countries.
"We are extremely pleased to welcome Crystal Reports for Eclipse to the growing number of commercial solutions built on the extensible Eclipse development and application framework," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director at the Eclipse Foundation. "Business Objects has provided significant support for Eclipse since becoming a member of the organization earlier this year and this release shows their continued commitment to the Eclipse community."
Crystal Reports for Eclipse is generally available now. The basic edition of Crystal Reports for Eclipse is complimentary for the corporate developer building applications for their organizations and allows developers to design and deploy reports on a single server. The professional version of Crystal Reports for Eclipse Professional, designed for multi-server deployments, is USD 495 per server.