Oracle BI Publisher with apex 3.1

Hi,
The Oracle BI publisher software is installed on the server and the apex database schema connection details are provided to generate the PDF reports.This apex schema has all the database objects created.
I have a small question regarding the schema.Is it better to create a new schema for the Oracle BI publisher?where will be the templates created via BI publisher stored?When a RTF template is created from windows doc by logging in to the BI publisher,will it create any tables in the schema on the database side?
Please suggest any document on how to effectively maintain the Oracle BI publisher.
Thanks

"user589320"
APEX is only using BI Publisher to transform the XML data of your report and the template you provide into PDF, Word or Excel. For this, APEX sends the XML data and the template to BI Publisher, and BI Publisher sends back to completed document. So there's nothing stored in BI Publisher, all templates, report definitions, etc are stored in the APEX schema. This has the advantage that you can reference item values and other information in your print documents, and it also ensures that you don't have to access the database again from within BI Publisher, i.e. you don't need to communicate any authentication information to BI Publisher.
Of course BI Publisher itself also provide the ability to store reports and to store templates. But those are not accessible from APEX through the built-in integration. You can however use the same templates you use for BI Publisher directly on load them into APEX for use there.
Lastly, if you want to use and print reports in both BI Publisher and your APEX applications, you can do that through web services, take a look at Tyler Muth's BLOG for more information on this topic:
http://tylermuth.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/call-bi-publisher-web-services-from-apex/
Regards,
Marc

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