Webutil killed reports

Question

I recently updated my configuration files for the developer 10G servlet (running locally) to run webutil so that I can test my apps prior to uploading to the common server. Although it was not exactly straight-forward and took some time, I did get everything working in regard to the webutil upgrade. Much to my dismay, I now find that reports that were happily called from my forms prior to webutil give only the error 'FRM-41213: Unable to connect to the report server <repsrv2.'. The report server is running (checked on services) and I can access directly from the rwservlet. Any known issues? Is Oracle ever going to make an appropriately integrated install program to set up reports, forms and webutil seemlessly? (or should we wait for Microsoft to do it for you!).

Answer 1

The headline of your psot is incorrect. It should have been : "After upgrading to Oracle Forms 10g, Reports Server is no longer found". We do know of a problem that is caused by a conflict between webutil.jar files and Reports jar files, but this is for Oracle Forms 9.0.2.
Anyway:
If the Reports Server works from the Servlet then - assuming the RWServlet test has a line server=repserv.. in its URL because otherwise you used the internal server process - you need to check if the Forms references the correct Reports Server name.
metalink.oracle.com, which is our customer suport contact site, has a note mentioning to copy webutil.jar file to the Reports classpath variable (Reports configuration). Similar, copy the content of the Reports Server classpath variable (Reports JAR file) to the Forms Services classpath (default.env file in forms90/server). As said, its a Form s9i problem and has been solved for Forms 10g, so chances are rare that this is the problem you are hitting.
This for the technical aspect of your question, now allow me a few private words
Is Oracle ever going to make an appropriately integrated install program to set up reports, forms and webutil seemlessly? (or should we wait for Microsoft to do it for you!).>
This line above is a bit too agressive and flaming for my taste. First, Oracle does set up Oracle Forms and Reports 10g to work out of the box!
Second, Microsoft is not a good choice to threaten us with, not in a sense that we are becoming more eager in answering your questions. In fact, many problems exist because of ...
Larry, this is a public forum where Oracle employees voluntarily spend their time to help customers. Mainly it is supposed to be a customer-helps-customer community forum in which peers share their knowledge. You come to this forum and ask a question. If we can, we are happy to help you out. I welcome you to this forum, but next time make sure you don't go overboard with your tone. I too have to balance my emotions sometimes and I hope I did it well in answering your question.
cheers
Frank