Custom reports engine in 9iAS reports services

Hi,
Has anyone built a custom engine with 9iAS reports services and got it to work? The document "Oracle9iAS Reports Services Publishing Reports to the Web" suggests to look for API documentation on OTN, but so far I have not been able to find any documentation on developing a custom engine.
Any suggestions/pointers will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Arun

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[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\alexc\Application Data
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): CLASSPATH=D:\9ias_forms\j2ee\home\oc4j.jar;D:\9ias_forms\j2ee\home\lib\ojsp.jar;D:\9ias_forms\jlib\zrclient.jar;D:\9ias_forms\reports\jlib\rwrun.jar;D:\9ias_forms\jlib\bigraphbean.jar;D:\9ias_forms\jlib\LW_PfjBean.jar;D:\9ias_forms\jlib\bigraphbean-nls.zip
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): COMPUTERNAME=MERCUR
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): ComSpec=C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): HOMEDRIVE=C:
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): HOMEPATH=\
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): JSERV=D:\IAS_infrastructure/Apache/Jserv/conf
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): LOGONSERVER=\\POSEIDON
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): OLAP_HOME=D:\IAS_infrastructure\olap
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): ORACLE_HOME=d:\9ias_forms
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): OS=Windows_NT
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): Os2LibPath=C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): Path=D:\IAS_infrastructure\bin;D:\9ias_forms\jdk\jre\bin\classic;D:\9ias_forms\jdk\jre\bin;D:\9ias_forms\bin;D:\9ias_forms\jlib;D:\IAS_infrastructure\jlib;C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.3.1\bin;C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.8\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Network Associates\VirusScan Engine\4.0.xx\
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
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[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel
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[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): PROCESSOR_REVISION=0103
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): PROMPT=$P$G
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): SystemDrive=C:
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): SystemRoot=C:\WINNT
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\alexc\LOCALS~1\Temp
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\alexc\LOCALS~1\Temp
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): USERDNSDOMAIN=softdept.intrarom
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): USERDOMAIN=SOFTDEPT
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): USERNAME=alexc
[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\alexc
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[2003/12/3 11:17:53:299] Debug 50103 (Environment:getEnvironmentStrings): NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MSWIN1252
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[2003/12/3 11:17:54:565] Info 50129 (RWServer:startServer): boa init succeeded
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[2003/12/3 11:18:0:18] Info 50103 (WebDBIntegration:start): Oracle Portal successfully connected.username:Portal, database:(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=mercur.softdept.intrarom)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=iasdb.mercur.softdept.intrarom)))
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[2003/12/3 11:18:0:753] State 56004 (EngineInfo:setState): Engine rwURLEng-0 state is: Initial
[2003/12/3 11:18:0:753] Debug 50103 (JobStore:writePersistFile): Purge persistent file
[2003/12/3 11:18:0:768] Debug 50103 (JobStore:writePersistFile): Purge persistent file done
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[2003/5/20 2:59:8:919] Info 56020 (EngineManager:spawnEngine): Launching engine
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E=/oracle/product/app engineimplclass=oracle.reports.urlengine.URLEngineImpl tra
ceopts=trace_all tracefile=/oracle/product/app/reports/logs/rep_app_server-rwURL
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java.lang.String errorString="API URLEngine:getEngineEnvs not applicable to URL
engine",
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I'm a VB.NET guy, not a C# guy, and I'm not clear on how the wssdk_net2.0_portal_sample_12.0_en example is supposed to work.
I don't have one and my CMS server is running Tomcat, not IIS so there's not going to be an ASP.NET web service running there.
In the dsws.config for the wssdk_net2.0_portal_sample_12.0_en example I put the name of the CMS server, but it's looking for a web service at http://cmsservername:8080/dswsbobje/services/Session, but I get a 404 when i try to hit that.
I'm not familiar with Tomcat, but in searching around on the server, I see a dswsbobje directory under the webapps in my Tomcat installation, but I don't see a services or a Session folder underneath that. In the dswsbobje folder I see the following folders:
BOAR-INF
META-INF
WEB-INF
xsd
Is there something else that needs to be installed on the Tomcat server to get the web service running?
-Eric

It looks like I have something there. When I launch launch http://servername:8080/dswsbobje, I see:
Apache-AXIS
Hello! Welcome to Apache-Axis.
What do you want to do today?
Validate the local installation's configuration
see below if this does not work.
To enable the disabled features, uncomment the appropriate declarations in WEB-INF/web.xml in the webapplication and restart it.
Validating Axis
If the "happyaxis" validation page displays an exception instead of a status page, the likely cause is that you have multiple XML parsers in your classpath. Clean up your classpath by eliminating extraneous parsers.
I clicked on the "Validate" link and I see:
Axis Happiness Page
Examining webapp configuration
QaaWS Configuration
QaaWS Servlet is not valid.
ErrorServer servername not found or server may be down
See Web Application log to get more info or read QaaWS v2 documentation starting with section
Perhaps this environment needs some additional configuration?

Report Engine SDK: CommunicationException when accessing IReportEngine members

Hello,
I have installed BOXI 3.1 SP3, including the .NET SDK, and I am trying to use the Report Engine SDK part to navigate through a WebIntelligence document (analyse its structure, etc.), via a Console App.
I built my console app targeting .NET framework 3.5, and compiled it in 32 bits mode (x86 platform). I can access the standard SDK without any problem and log in to the CMS then retrieve any InfoObject instances from my enterprise server.
My problem occurs when I try to access my BusinessObjects.ReportEngine.IReportEngine instance's members. Sample lines of code:
SessionMgr sessionManager = new SessionMgr();
EnterpriseSession session = sessionManager.Logon(login, password, cmsName, authType);
InfoStore infoStore = (InfoStore)session.GetService("InfoStore");
UserInfo userInfos = session.UserInfo;
string logonToken = session.LogonTokenMgr.CreateWCAToken("", 1, -1);
ReportEngines reportEngines = new ReportEngines(logonToken);
IReportEngine reportEngine = (IReportEngine)reportEngines.getService(ReportEngineType.WI_ReportEngine);
bool test = reportEngine.IsReady; // or any other member of reportEngine, like reportEngine.OpenDocument(...)
An exception of type 'BusinessObjects.ReportEngine.CommunicationException' occured.
Message:
The Web Intelligence server could not be reached. Contact your Business Objects administrator. (Error: RWI 00236), Session Init Failure,
Stacktrace:
   à BusinessObjects.ReportEngine.WI.Internal.Server.OCCA.OCCAServerStub.Connect(Boolean forceNewInstance)
   à BusinessObjects.ReportEngine.WI.Internal.Server.OCCA.OCCAServerStub..ctor(OCCAServerConnection connection, Boolean forceNewInstance)
   à BusinessObjects.ReportEngine.WI.Internal.Server.OCCA.OCCAServerConnection.get_Stub()
   à BusinessObjects.ReportEngine.WI.Internal.Server.ServerCaller.SetupStub()
   à BusinessObjects.ReportEngine.WI.Internal.Server.ServerCaller..ctor(IServerSession session, IServerProtocol protocol, IServerConnectionInfo info)
   à BusinessObjects.ReportEngine.WI.Internal.WIDocumentInstance..ctor(WIReportEngine engine, Int32 documentId, OpenDocumentParameters parameters)
   à BusinessObjects.ReportEngine.WI.Internal.WIDocumentInstance..ctor(WIReportEngine engine, Int32 documentId)
   à BusinessObjects.ReportEngine.WI.Internal.WIReportEngine.GetAnyServerInstance()
   à BusinessObjects.ReportEngine.WI.Internal.WIReportEngine.get_IsReady()
What do you suggest?

Hi,
Enterprise / ReportEngine SDK is not supported / tested / compatible with desktop / console apps.
Could you try the same logic with a web services sdk, as WebServices SDk is the only SDK which could be used to develop thick client apps.
- Bhushan
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