What is an rpd file and webcat file?

I find the reference to RPD file and web cat file almost everywhere. However, I have not been able to find:
1. the contents of the file
2. How it is created
3. Who creates it and How it can be viewed/modified?
Please let me know the same for the webcat file.

Ok. Not quite sure what you want here.
1. The RPD is a binary file used by the BI Server to retrieve data from a source database. In the case of BI Applications this is the OBAW or BI Applications Data Warehouse. You can view its structures and settings using the BI Administration tool.
2. RPDs are created by the BI Admin Tool. This Oracle By Example tutorial shows how to create a complex RPD
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/obe_bi/bi_ee_1013/bi_admin/biadmin.html
3. Any user ID with the Administrator privilege in the RPD can create one. Yes that is weird but any new Administrator must be created by the default Administrator. Then a new "Administrator" can create or modify other users to have that role.
Webcat
1. The web cat is a collection of Reports and Dashboards that run against the BI Presentation Server. The Webcat can contain items that are not from the BI Server like BI Publisher reports or HTML content.
2. An empty webcat is created every time a new RPD is initialized.
3. The best tools to modify the webcat are the embedded HTML tools on the Presentation Server. There is a catalog manager tool but it is very powerful and without care you can quickly and easily make the catalog unusable. You have been warned ; - )

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