Paper layout & web layout

This might be a novice questin but still..
With 9i reports, we are only going to deploy our reports to the web, and there are going to be no client server reports..
In that context, the only layout we are going to be worried about is the web layout, I dont understant why there are two kinds of layouts i.e. PAPER LAYOUT AND WEB LAYOUT
what is the difference between the two, when should we use the paper and web layout.

Hi,
There are 2 things here: the Q about deploying reports to the web, and the Q about paper and web layout. Let me explain each one.
Q about paper and web layouts
Paper layout is the layout you need to create "printable" reports. This layout is the same that you saw in 6i - with frames, repeating frames, fields, boilerplate objects and so on. This layout has the concept of a "page-wise" report. Once you create this layout (paper layout), you can get your report output in various formats, eg, PDF, RTF, HTML, HTMLCSS etc.
On the other hand, web layout means that in place of (or in addition to) the paper layout, you get the report designed in JSP code. So all the frames, repeating frames etc will be expressed in JSP code using the Oracle Reports custom tags. Since it is code-based, you can insert your HTML or Java code in here to customize the output. You can in fact start with the HTML template, open it in reports builder, and start inserting the data using Reports custom JSP tags. In web layout, there are no "page breaks". So your report will be a JSP file, and can be deployed along with your J2EE application.
Now the Q about deploying to the web.
BOTH paper and web layouts are compatible with the web architecture. You will call a paper report from your browser with a command like:
http://my_machine_name:port_number/reports/rwservlet?report=...server=...userid=...destype=...desformat=...
And for accessing the web layout, you will deploy the JSP on a J2EE containser (like OC4J), and access it like:
http://my_machine_name:port_number/application_context_root/My_jsp_report.JSP?server=...userid=...
There is no destype, desformat or desname (because the output is only displayed on your browser).
So using 9i Reports builder, if you want to save the report's paper layout ONLY, you save it as an RDF file. In case you want to store ONLY web or BOTH paper and web layouts, you save the report definition as JSP.
get more information on Reports Getting Started
http://otn.oracle.com/products/reports/htdocs/getstart/gettingstarted/anyformat/format.html
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