Defining Data Sources
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.