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14.1 Overview
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Using the Oracle Reports Web Service
A Web service is an application that is built on standard Internet and XML
technologies and has the following characteristics :
■ Public interfaces and bindings defined and described using XML
■ Publishes these public interfaces and bindings across the network for use by other
programs
A Web service accepts a request, performs its function based on the request, and
returns a response. The request and the response can be part of the same operation, or
they can occur separately, in which case the consumer does not need to wait for a
response. Both the request and the response usually take the form of XML, a portable
data-interchange format, and are delivered over a wire protocol, such as HTTP.
Web service transactions are usually conducted between businesses. A business that is
a provider of one service can also be a consumer of another service. A Web service
consumer can also be a client device, such as a thin client connecting to the Web
service provider over a lightweight protocol.
This chapter discusses the Oracle Reports Web service and contains the following
sections:
■ Overview
■ Getting Started
■ Installing and Using the Sample Proxy and Java Client
Oracle Reports provides several ways of submitting a job request to the
server-infrastructure for processing:
■ rwservlet
rwservlet translates and delivers a job request between HTTP and the Reports
Server, such as when submitting from a Web browser or via the event-driven
publishing API.
■ rwcgi
rwcgi translates and delivers a job request between HTTP and the Reports Server,
such as when submitting from a Web browser or via the event-driven publishing
API. rwcgi is maintained only for backward compatibility.
■ rwclient
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