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Defining Data Sources
 
Defining a CentraSite Data Source
Defining a XQuery Data Source
Defining a JDBC Data Source
Data sources connect reports to a database or other physical source of data. When you define a data source, you specify the data source name and other connection information.
In BIRT, you can define two types of data source that connect to a CentraSite registry:
*CentraSite: This type of data source is used to access a CentraSite registry using the search and find functionality of the CentraSite Eclipse GUI.
*CentraSite XQuery: This type of data source is used to retrieve data from a CentraSite registry using XQuery, the XML query language.
*JDBC: This type of data source is used to access relational databases.
The following sections describe how to define data sources of each of these types.
* Defining a CentraSite Data Source
* Defining a XQuery Data Source
* Defining a JDBC Data Source