Publishing Web Services via APEX on the horizon? WSRP? SOD?

Hi,
Are there any plans for APEX being able to "natively" publish Web Services? Maybe support for WSRP so you could publish an APEX based portlet on Oracle Portal or WebCenter?
Any news of when an updated statement of direction will be published?
Regards Pete
Message was edited by:
Peter Lorenzen

There is some talk of native database web services in the next version of Oracle:
http://padrenc.blogspot.com/2006/10/xquery-and-xml-db-hands-on-lab.html
It didn't quite make it into 10g:
Re: plsql web services without appserv

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Hello,
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<soapenv:Body>
<pub:runReport>
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import com.oracle.xmlns.oxp.service.publicreportservice.FTPDeliveryOption;
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import com.oracle.xmlns.oxp.service.publicreportservice.JobStatus;
import com.oracle.xmlns.oxp.service.publicreportservice.OperationFailedException_Exception;
import com.oracle.xmlns.oxp.service.publicreportservice.PublicReportService;
import com.oracle.xmlns.oxp.service.publicreportservice.PublicReportServiceService;
import com.oracle.xmlns.oxp.service.publicreportservice.ReportRequest;
import com.oracle.xmlns.oxp.service.publicreportservice.ReportResponse;
import com.oracle.xmlns.oxp.service.publicreportservice.ScheduleRequest;
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import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ResourceBundle;
import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSeeAlso;
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import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
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setPassword("Administrator");
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<div class="rpt-sort">Fname</div>
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<tr class="highlight-row">
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Edited by: patfmnd on Dec 12, 2012 6:07 PM

Web Service in Apex

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Jason
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I have APEX 3.1.2 on 11g database.
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I am new at this. I will let you know how it works out.
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