Reports in JDeveloper 9.0.3

Question

Hi,
what would be the best way to produce high quality paper reports from a JClient application (with preview) ?
How can I invoke reports generated from Oracle Reports 9i (JSP) from JClient ?
I suppose that a Runtime.exec() is not the very best way to start a browser with a URL to the JSP report...
Thanks,
KZic

Answer 1

Here is how we did it:
public class BatchPrt
String DestPrinter = "\\\\teal\\potassium";
String InitialParms = "server=Rep60_ws1925+report=wkfl_batch.rdf+paramform=no+destype=printer+userid=blah/blah@neic817+desformat=pdf+orientation=portrait+copies=2" + "+desname=" + DestPrinter;
public BatchPrt()
public void PrintRpt(String BatchId)
try{
String parms = InitialParms + "+batch_id=" + BatchId;
byte[] bytes = parms.getBytes();
URL url = new URL("http://ws1925/cgi-bin/rwcgi60");
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
con.setDoOutput(true);
con.setDoInput(true);
con.setUseCaches(false);
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.setRequestProperty("Content-length", String.valueOf(bytes.length));
OutputStream out = con.getOutputStream();
out.write(bytes);
out.flush();
int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
if (responseCode != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
     System.out.println ("Unable to connect, http error code: "+String.valueOf(responseCode)+").");
     System.exit(1);
out.close();
con.disconnect();
// Show a message saying the print was ok.
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, "Batch Report for Batch Id " + BatchId + " complete." );
catch (MalformedURLException e)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, "An error occured! Please contact Corporate Systems!" );
e.printStackTrace();
catch(IOException e)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, "An error occured! Please contact Corporate Systems!" );
e.printStackTrace();
Hope this helps.