Oracle Reports in JSP Format

Hi Gurus,
We have developed lots of reports that are paper based and opened either as PDFs or CSVs.
Now we have a new challenge. We have a generic Parameter Form (Developed in Oracle Forms), which is being called from the Menu for any report. Depending upon the Menu name we send the corresponding Report Module to the Parameter Form as a parameter.
Now at the time of pressing Submit, we use the parameters in this form and call web.show_document to see the report (as we got the Report Module to the parameter Form thro the Menu's call). But now we want to see all the Reports as JSPs. We would like to take a generic approach. Please guide me on this regard.
Thanks and Regards,
Forms.

Peter,
you can call it from a URL if you need:
/reports/rwservlet?report=...&detype=cache&desformat=pdf...
You can define a file called cgicmd.dat on teh server that takes key-value pairs of the most common parameters under an named entry.
e.g.
ReportsCommon: destype=cache server=myServer ... %*
This way your URL is reduced to a minimum length because you don't have to list all parameters in teh URL.
Second solution:
Run a Reports from a browser URL and specify paramform=yes. This create a HTML based parameter form before executing teh Reports. Have a look at the HTML form code and see to what extend your Reports share same functionality so that you could create this HTML form in your JSP page. You could have a poplist with the name of "desformat" and list HTML, HTMLCSS,PDF,RTF,XML as valid entries so that the user can select the output format.
The Reports documentation shipped with Oracle9iAS (also available online otn.oracle.com/products/reports) has all teh information you need.
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