RS and J2EE High Level Architecture Question

I am looking for a tool that allows me to generate lists, mailmerged letters
and reports from a J2EE application. Are there strong reasons in favor or
against RS, specifically in regard to integrating via the Web Service API?
Can I wrap RS in a J2EE-based interface and stream reports through the
application server, as opposed to exposing the RS management interface to
the end users?
Thanks for your input.Christian,
> I am looking for a tool that allows me to generate lists, mailmerged
letters
> and reports from a J2EE application. Are there strong reasons in favor or
> against RS, specifically in regard to integrating via the Web Service API?
This is one of the RS strongest points because with RS reports are
web-enabled by default. In other words, once you deploy your report to the
report catalog there is nothing you have to do to expose it over the web.
> Can I wrap RS in a J2EE-based interface and stream reports through the
> application server, as opposed to exposing the RS management interface to
> the end users?
You bet. You can generate RS reports on the server-side your J2EE
application by calling the RS Render SOAP API. In addtion, the Report Server
supports URL addressibility where a HTTP-GET request is generated on the
client side of the application. You should carefully evaluate both SOAP and
URL addressibility to find out which one meets your app requirements better.
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"Christian Donner" <stealthcdonner@.stealthmolecular.comremovestealth> wrote
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> I am looking for a tool that allows me to generate lists, mailmerged
letters
> and reports from a J2EE application. Are there strong reasons in favor or
> against RS, specifically in regard to integrating via the Web Service API?
> Can I wrap RS in a J2EE-based interface and stream reports through the
> application server, as opposed to exposing the RS management interface to
> the end users?
> Thanks for your input.
>|||Christian,
I don't see why not. the web service methods for RS include the RENDER
method. Since this is a SOAP call which returns a byte array (representing
the rendered report) RS is client agnostic. have at it.
hope this helps.
dlr
"Christian Donner" <stealthcdonner@.stealthmolecular.comremovestealth> wrote
in message news:esT536OlEHA.3760@.TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I am looking for a tool that allows me to generate lists, mailmerged
letters
> and reports from a J2EE application. Are there strong reasons in favor or
> against RS, specifically in regard to integrating via the Web Service API?
> Can I wrap RS in a J2EE-based interface and stream reports through the
> application server, as opposed to exposing the RS management interface to
> the end users?
> Thanks for your input.
>