Showing Oracle reports in current web application with JBOSS as AS

Question

hi:
I have installed the Oracle AS(10g 10.1.2.0.2) and the reports services... I have also installed the Stand Alone J2EE Thin Client (http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/reports/htdocs/getstart/examples/Tools/index.html)
My current web project uses JBoss and I have to show oracle reports keeping the current environment.
I have followed the steps provided on the doc mentioned in the above link.
first i did the following steps ( please refer to the text of that readme doc below)
(//text of readme doc, I have done these steps
1. Deploy THINCLIENT_HOME/reports/j2ee/reports.ear on the J2EE application server.
2. Add the following JAR files to the classpath of the J2EE application server:
* THINCLIENT_HOME/reports/jlib/rwrun.jar
* THINCLIENT_HOME/jlib/zrclient.jar
3. Use THINCLIENT_HOME/vbroker4/lib/vbjboot.jar while starting the application server.
but i cannot understand what is written just next to the above llines in that doc I am pasting those points from that doc
(text of readme doc:
The following section provides detailed instructions on carrying out the above 3 configuration steps with OC4J Standalone Distribution 10g (9.0.4). You need to consult your J2EE application server's documentation to carry out the same steps for your application server.
1. Add the following to OC4J_HOME/j2ee/home/config/server.xml
<application name="reports" path="<THINCLIENT_HOME>/reports/j2ee/reports.ear" auto-start="true" />
2. Add the following to OC4J_HOME/j2ee/home/config/http-web-site.xml
<web-app application="reports" name="web" root="/reports"/>
3. Add the following to OC4J_HOME/j2ee/home/config/application.xml
<library path="<THINCLIENT_HOME>/reports/jlib/rwrun.jar"/>
<library path="<THINCLIENT_HOME>/jlib/zrclient.jar"/>
according to what i understood i went to OC4J which is under my Oracle_Infra directory and then completed the above steps
after that I ran the command (according to this doc):
java -Xbootclasspath/p:<THINCLIENT_HOME>/vbroker4/lib/vbjboot.jar -jar oc4j.jar
the result of this command is following
06/02/09 14:57:37 Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (9.0.4.0.0) initialized
and then it never comes back to command prompt
Now after all these steps...i don't understand what to do next and my problem is still there which is How to deploy reports made by oracle reports from my web project links
please help
Waqas

Answer 1

If the links in your example report1 and report2
follow my format stated earlier
http://machine:port/reports/rwservlet/report=reportnam
e.rdf&destype=cache& paramform=htmlcss&server=<YourReportSe
rverName>&userid=scott/tiger@hrdb&desformat=pdf
This is what I believe
>
so http://machine:port/ is the port where
JBoss is running and
This should be the port that the report server is listening on
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server=<YourReportServerName> is the name of
my oracle report server
so I call the above link in my current application
and the report would show up
Yes
>
that means (correct me if I am wrong) that my reports
would have to be deployed in OracleAS
Yes
>
I have to try all this yet as till this point I was
trying to run Oracle reports deployed in JBoss...
This may be possible, I am not sure.
>
Oracle J2EE Thin Client?
I am not sure what this is used for in your setup.