In the previous releases of Teiid, only "JDBC" and "Text" connectors can be used in the Dynamic VDBs, as these were the only two connectors that were aware of their metadata for data integration. In Teiid 7.0, with the latest changes from SteveH for the XML Translators and resource adapters, now all the Translators are metadata aware, except for LDAP (we are still working on this one). So, now you can integrate data from all data sources that Teiid supports using the Dynamic VDB feature. This marks a very important first milestone towards the breaking away the implicit dependency on Designer tool for building the VDB. Now you can use the "Dynamic VDB", to do the data integration if it fits your data integration needs. However, please note that if you need the abstraction "virtual" layer above your schema, you still need to use the Designer for building the VDB as before. Check out the new examples showing these features in the Teiid download. Thanks. Ramesh..