About Provisioning Data

Provisioning Data provides information about accessing data from JDBC, NoSQL, file-based, and web services data sources for use with BIRT applications.

Provisioning Data includes the following sections:

Accessing data basics

Understanding data sources. This section lists supported data sources and explains how a report accesses data.

Understanding data sets. This section explains how to create a data set and how to combine data from multiple data sources.

Binding data. This section explains how to create data bindings. A data binding is an expression that specifies what data to display.

Accessing data in supported data sources

Accessing data in a data object. This section explains how to access data provided by a data object.

Accessing data in a JDBC database. This section explains how to retrieve data from JDBC databases such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, and Informix.

Accessing data in a NoSQL database. This section explains how to retrieve data from NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Hadoop, and Amazon Relational Database Service.

Accessing data in files. This section explains how to access data in flat files, XML files, Excel spreadsheets, and BIRT report documents.

Accessing data from a web service. This section explains how to access data provided by a web service.

Accessing data in a POJO. This section explains how to access data provided by a Plain Old Java Object (POJO).

Modeling data

Creating data objects. This section explains how to create data objects. A data object is a BIRT object that contains all the information necessary to connect to an external data source, retrieve data from that data source, and structure the data in a way that supports business analysis.