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Running Report Requests
This chapter discusses various ways to send report requests to the Reports Server. It
includes the following sections:
■ The Reports URL Syntax
■ Report Request Methods
■ Deploying Your Reports
■ Publishing a Report in OracleAS Portal
■ Specifying a Report Request from a Web Browser
■ Sending a Request to the URL Engine
■ Running Reports through a Web Service
■ Scheduling Reports to Run Automatically
■ Additional Parameters
■ Reusing Report Output from Cache
■ Using a Key Map File
13.1 The Reports URL Syntax
13.1.1 Servlet
This section provides quick reference information on formulating a URL for
publishing a report. It covers three deployment types:
■ Servlet
■ JSP
■ CGI (for backward compatibility only)
The information is largely the same for both Windows and UNIX environments.
Differences are noted.
The syntax for the URL of a report run via the Reports Servlet is:
http://web_server.domain_name:port/alias/rwservlet?parameters
Table 13–1 lists and describes the components of the servlet URL.
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