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Deploying Your Reports
■ A URL
To run a report from a browser, use the URL syntax. The Reports Servlet (and CGI,
for backward compatibility) converts the URL syntax into an rwclient command
line request that is processed by Oracle Application Server Reports Services. You
can give your users the URL syntax needed to make the report request from their
browser, or you can add the URL syntax to a Web site as a hyperlink. The
remainder of this chapter discusses this method in more detail.
■ Via OracleAS Portal
The OracleAS Portal component enables you to add a link to a report in an
OracleAS Portal page or portlet, or to output report results directly into a portlet.
Each report link points to a packaged procedure that contains information about
the report request. OracleAS Reports Services system administrators use OracleAS
Portal wizards to create the packaged procedure making it more convenient and
secure to publish the report via the Web. Authorized users accessing the OracleAS
Portal page group simply click the link to run the report. System administrators
can run the report directly from the wizard. See the OracleAS Portal online help for
more information.
Refer to Publishing a Report in OracleAS Portal for more information about how
to publish your report as a portlet.
■ A packaged procedure
SRW.RUN_REPORT is a built-in that runs a Reports Runtime command. When you
specify SRW.RUN_REPORT, set the SERVER option to the Reports Server name to
cause the SRW.RUN_REPORT command to behave as though you executed an
rwclient command.
Refer to the Reports Builder online help for more information.
■ A Web service
You can expose OracleAS Reports Services as a Web service and then call it from
any Web service aware environment (e.g., a Java application).
13.3 Deploying Your Reports
Once you’ve created your report, you can deploy it so that end users can view it. This
section describes how to deploy a report with a paper layout (i.e., REP, RDF, XML, or
JSP report) and how to deploy a report with a Web layout (i.e., a JSP report).
Note: For an example on building and testing a JSP-based Web
report, refer to the Oracle Reports Tutorial and the "Building a
JSP-Parameter Form for a Web Report" chapter in the Oracle Reports
Building Reports manual.
The following table describes which method you can use to deploy your report,
depending on the type of report.
Table 13–4 Methods for Deploying a Report
Type of Report Method Reason for Using
Report with paper
layout (REP, RDF, XML)
Deploying a Report
with a Paper Layout
Method for deploying a report
with only a paper layout.
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