The following resourceDescriptor sample contains a set of simple properties that describe a JDBC connection resource:

Some properties cannot be represented by a simple value. To accommodate more complicated properties, a resourceProperty can recursively contain other resourceProperties. This is the case for a List of Values type resource (used to define input controls for report parameters); the list values are contained in the resourceProperty named PROP_LOV and are represented by sub-resourceProperties. For example:

This example defined a list of countries. Notice that, for each list item, the resourceProperty name represents the item value, and the resourceProperty value contains the item label.