links for 2008-01-12

The parallel between BP-QL and CMDBf invites the question of whether one should model business processes in a CMDB. Is a business process represented by just one CI or do you break it down into a model similar to the one BP-QL query language works on?

(tags: cmdbf bp-ql cmdb bpm bsm business-service-management)

I will cover topics from designing reports and creating datasets using the BIRT report designer to using scripted data objects and using Java to manage the dataset events.

(tags: BIRT eclipse)