OBIEE Webservice VS BI Publisher Webservice

Hi
I am planning to use the webservice interface to Oracle BI presentation services. I came across 2 web services API's. One is the OBIEE webservice and the other is the BI Publisher web service.
1. I basically want to understand the basic difference between the two....advantages/disadvantages
2. Also wanted to understand on the difference between creating reports in Answer's versus creating them in BI Publisher......
3. When to use what ?

OLTP Answers versus BI Publisher
(Benefits/Relevance of OLTP Answers)
• Oracle Discoverer to Answers Utility (for rapid dev of addl reports)
• Better empowerment: Users can build their own reports
• (Future) Oracle delivered OLTP reports on the horizon
• Integrated support for real time reports against OLTP (views/tables) as well as Analytic reports against OBIA (Data warehouse)
• Reports will need “pseudo-stars” in RPD (addl. complexity)
• Concerns around “cluttering” of RPD
• Integrated, role-based security with OBIA
• Better flexibility in terms of parameter control etc.
• Supports standard drill-down capabilities
• Better report organization (Dashboard and pages)
• Support for frequency-based scheduler
• Support for business-driven notifications
• Mobile BI experience
(Benefits/Relevance of BI Publisher)
• Simpler process (reports run directly against EBS views)
• Ability to bypass RPD (potential for better performance)
• Support for interactive Excel worksheets & Pivots
• Support for multiple formats (HTML, PDF, RTF, Excel etc.)
• EBS R12 has significant BI Publisher reports (non-OBI)
• Capability to build “pixel perfect” reports (Allows control over the content on each pixel on the report page)
• Parameter control limited to the query run time only
• No drill-down capabilities
• Purely based on a “scheduler” concept
• Role-based content delivery (Bursting)

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how are you?
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faultSubcode:
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faultNode:
faultDetail:
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THANKS!!! that works perfectly. I used eclipse 1.2. below are the steps.
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