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JDBC drivers need to be put in the following location to be available in BIRT Viewer. Putting them into <TOMCAT HOME>/common/lib does not work in BIRT and you will get a “cannot load JDBC driver” error.

<TOMCAT HOME>/webapps/birt/WEB-INF/platform/plugins/org.eclipse.birt.report.data.oda.jdbc_2.3.1.v20080827/drivers

The Tomcat path and version number will depend on your environment.