Integrating and Extending BIRT
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Integrating and Extending BIRT
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Integrating and extending BIRT/ Jason Weathersby... [et al.].
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-321-44385-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Computer software--Development. 2. Application software--Development. 3. Client/server
computing. I. Weathersby, Jason.
QA76.76.D47I552 2006
005.1—dc22
2006014602
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