Whether you need to document or present information about your objects, you can use predefined or custom reports to do so. Reports provide a way for you to view, share and print information derived from the objects you have created.

CentraSite Reports can be used to register BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) reports. Such reports can be created, for example, using the Eclipse plug-ins delivered with CentraSite. For information about installing and starting the plug-ins, see Getting Started with CentraSite . Documentation describing how to create BIRT reports is contained in the Eclipse online help that is delivered with the plug-ins.

The data model that UDDI CentraSite uses to store the metadata of a BIRT report complies with the best practices given in the technical note titled "Using BPEL4WS in a UDDI Registry", available on the OASIS web site.

This chapter describes how to create report templates, upload the report templates to CentraSite and run the reports.