JDBC Driver Information Extension

org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.jdbc.driverinfo

1.0

An extension to supply additional information about a JDBC driver available to the JDBC-ODA Bridge. The information provided for a JDBC driver by this extension include: Driver class name (which uniquely identifies the driver in the BIRT environment), a display-friendly driver name and a URL template to help report desinger compose a data source connection URL.

<!ELEMENT extension (jdbcDriver*)>

<!ATTLIST extension

point CDATA #REQUIRED

id    CDATA #IMPLIED

name  CDATA #IMPLIED>


<!ELEMENT jdbcDriver EMPTY>

<!ATTLIST jdbcDriver

name              CDATA #IMPLIED

driverClass       CDATA #REQUIRED

urlTemplate       CDATA #IMPLIED

connectionFactory CDATA #IMPLIED>

Provides information about a JDBC driver available to the JDBC-ODA bridge.



This is a sample extension which defines the embedded Derby JDBC driver. It is an excerpt from the jdbc-oda driver's plugin manifest.