Report Printing: APEX 4.01 - APEX Listener - WebLogic 10.3.3

Question

We have some report printing issues...
Our configuration is APEX 4.01 using the APEX Listener with WebLogic 10.3.3.
The first issue is that under "Print Attributes" the following is listed in red under "Printing":
"Report printing is currently not available, there is no print server configured."
The second one is that we need to print pdf format and I have not found a solution for doing this with the APEX Listener and WebLogic. I saw that the FOP solution for the APEX Listener didn't make it into the current release... Is there any way to do pdf type reports with the current APEX listener technology?
The third issue is that in the demo app when running a report there is a "Error loading file:" type error with "FLOW_FLASH_CHART" and apex_util.flash as part of the url.
Any help would be appreciated...
Thanks!
- Scott

Answer 1

I deployed in WebLogic the fop.war that came with APEX 4.0.1 and it got rid of the error message, but when I tried to download a report as pdf, I got an error saying it was corrupted or invalid. I downloaded the file it produced and opened it in a text editor. It was a small html type file with the following URL:
ORA-20001: The printing engine could not be reached because either the URL specified is incorrect or a proxy URL needs to be specified.
When I go to the URL that I think it should be going to based on what I put into Instance settings> Report Printing, I get:
Compilation of JSP File '/apex_fop.jsp' failed:
apex_fop.jsp:5:18: The import oracle.xml cannot be resolved
<%@ page import='oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLDocument'%>
^------------------------------^
apex_fop.jsp:6:18: The import oracle.xml cannot be resolved
<%@ page import='oracle.xml.parser.v2.XSLProcessor'%>
^-------------------------------^
apex_fop.jsp:7:18: The import oracle.xml cannot be resolved
<%@ page import='oracle.xml.parser.v2.XSLStylesheet'%>
^--------------------------------^
apex_fop.jsp:8:18: The import oracle.xml cannot be resolved
<%@ page import='oracle.xml.parser.v2.DOMParser'%>
^----------------------------^
apex_fop.jsp:12:1: XMLDocument cannot be resolved to a type
XMLDocument v_doc;
^--------^
apex_fop.jsp:13:1: XSLStylesheet cannot be resolved to a type
XSLStylesheet v_xsl = null;
^----------^
apex_fop.jsp:15:1: DOMParser cannot be resolved to a type
DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
^------^
apex_fop.jsp:15:28: DOMParser cannot be resolved to a type
DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
^------^
apex_fop.jsp:16:1: XSLProcessor cannot be resolved to a type
XSLProcessor processor = new XSLProcessor();
^---------^
apex_fop.jsp:16:30: XSLProcessor cannot be resolved to a type
XSLProcessor processor = new XSLProcessor();
^---------^
apex_fop.jsp:21:13: XSLStylesheet cannot be resolved to a type
v_xsl = new XSLStylesheet(new java.io.StringReader(request.getParamet