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About Web reports

With a focus on Web publishing, Oracle Reports has moved more fully into its role as a universal publishing solution. In prior releases, Reports Builder's Web feature simply displayed paper reports (that is, multiple pages) in HTML or PDF. This moves corporate data onto the Web, but also results in large and somewhat inflexible HTML pages.

While all the prior Web report functionality remains for paper-based reports (see Preparing a paper-based report for the Web), Oracle Reports can also use JavaServer Pages (JSPs) as the underlying technology to enable you to enhance Web pages with information retrieved using Reports Builder. This introduces the Web Source view of a report, and enables you to have both JSP-based and paper-based definitions in a single report. In other words, you can either publish your paper reports to the Web in various output formats, or take more advantage of Web features by adding JSP coding in the Web Source view. For example, you can create a report that has a paper PDF version and a JSP-based Web version; what you choose depends on your needs and whether you are able to produce the desired results more easily in the Web Source view or in the Paper Design view.

Oracle Reports also includes servlet technology. Servlets provide a Java-based alternative to CGI programs. Servlets provide a platform-independent method for building Web-based applications, without the performance limitations of CGI programs.

You can create a Web report in any of the following ways:

To preview your report output in a Web browser, choose Programright arrowRun Web Layout. This enables you to immediately see the effect of your changes on the output.

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See also

Creating a Web report

About JavaServer Pages (JSPs) and servlets

About Parameter Forms for Web reports

About HTML and HTMLCSS output

About PDF output

About XML output

About previewing JSP-based Web reports

About HTML page streaming

About style sheets

Adding a report block to a Web page

Viewing the source code for a Web report

Displaying report output in your Web browser

Printing a report from your Web browser