Running Reports with a Process Definition/XMLPublisher App Engine

Is there any documentation for creating the Application Engine to run XMLP reports from the PeopleSoft menu? We are converting our Crystal reports to XMLP and I get the report to run fine through Report Viewer but the user wants to access it on the report menu. The Data Source is query and the query has 7 run control prompts. I can see how other report App Engines run using three fields UserID, Run Control, Language but this query would have seven prompts to pass from the run control page to the query/report. I'm assuming I would have to use bind variables. I don't want to use the method of passing three prompts from the run control table and then setting criteria in the query but to just pass all of the prompt values directly to the report because the query is a union so that complicates the process. I was wondering if there is a paper, documentation or something to explain the process for passing the prompts (through peoplecode) to the report when running the report from the process definition to the App Engine from the menu?

Anil and Rohit,
Thank you both for the help and getting back to me timely. So let me be sure I understand. When running my report in JDeveloper, I am not able to run the rwservlet because it is not deployed on the 9iDS instance of OC4J that JDeveloper uses, because JDeveloper uses a lightweight version of the 9iDS OC4J containers (Or rather, is it not even a version of 9iDS OC4J?). So, I have to start a separate 9iDS OC4J instance which does have rwservlet deployed. So if I try the unsupported trick and deploy reports_ids.ear to the same OC4J instance that Jdeveloper is using, I may be able to get everything working with one instance of OC4J. If I do, what about when I deploy my report to a production 9iAS server? I'm thinking that the 9iAS instance of OC4J would have the rwservlet deployed, so my application would be fit for this environment, and I would still be running everything on one instance of 9iAS OC4J. I also have the idea, for development, of instead of running my application and reports using the internal JDeveloper OC4J instance, I would use a standalone 9iDS OC4J instance on my machine and just run everything (my web application and reports) on this. Do you think this would be feasible? Should I be able to use the JDeveloper debugger to remotely debug all this?
Thanks and sorry for so many questions!
Bill

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