The document provides a comprehensive overview of various reporting solutions for ADF applications, including Oracle Reports, BI Publisher, Jasper Reports, and Docmosis. It details the setup, parameters, and coding examples necessary to invoke these reporting tools from ADF, along with the pros and cons of each option. Additionally, it shares resources for further exploration of these reporting technologies.

1. A SPECIAL REPORT
Reporting solutions for ADF Applications
Luc Bors
Oracle Certified ADF Implementation Specialist
AMIS Services, The Netherlands
Oracle ADF Specialized Partner
Monday, June 25, 2012
ODTUG KScope 12
San Antonio, Texas, USA

2. REPORTING

3. I USE ADF, WHAT ABOUT REPORTS ?

4. ORACLE REPORTS DEVELOPER

5. CREATING ORACLE REPORTS
• Example:
– Employees per Department Report
– Parameter P_DEPARTMENT_ID

6. HOW TO CALL THE REPORT ?

7. USING ORACLE REPORTS
• Use Case : Invoke the report for the currently selected
Department in an ADF table

8. PREPARING THE CALL
• Create a bean and method to invoke the report
<managed-bean id="__13">
<managed-bean-name id="__14">oracleReportBean</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class id="__15">
com.blogspot.lucbors.reporting.view.orarep.OracleReportBean
</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope id="__16">request</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
• Provide report parameters
String oraReportServerUrl = "http://192.168.2.8:8889/reports/rwservlet?";
String reportNameParam ="report=";
String reportDestypeParam = "destype=";
String reportPDesformatParam = "desformat=";
String reportUseridParam = "userid=“;

9. CONSTRUCTING THE CALL
• Construct Report Server URL; Including the parameters
public void runOracleReport(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
String departmentParam = "p_department_id=";
StringBuffer totalCallUrl = new StringBuffer();
totalCallUrl.append(getOraReportServerUrl());
totalCallUrl.append(getReportNameParam().concat("employees.rdf")+"&");
totalCallUrl.append(getReportDestypeParam().concat("cache")+"&");
totalCallUrl.append(getReportPDesformatParam().concat("html")+"&");
totalCallUrl.append(getReportUseridParam().concat("hr/hr@xe")+"&");
totalCallUrl.append(departmentParam.concat(getDepartmentId()));
setOraReportUrl(totalCallUrl.toString());
}
public String getDepartmentId() {
DCIteratorBinding it = ADFUtils.findIterator("SalaryOverview1Iterator");
oracle.jbo.domain.Number deptId =
(oracle.jbo.domain.Number)it.getCurrentRow().getAttribute("DepartmentId");
return deptId.toString();
}

10. CALL AND SHOW THE REPORT
• Call ………
<af:commandToolbarButton text="Run Oracle Report" id="cb3“
actionListener="#{oracleReportBean.runOracleReport}">
<af:showPopupBehavior popupId=":::showOraRpt" triggerType="click"/>
</af:commandToolbarButton>
• ……. And Show the report
<af:popup id="showOraRpt" animate="default">
<af:panelWindow id="pw3" modal="true"
title="External Internet Info in a Modal Popup"
contentHeight="625" contentWidth="700" resize="on">
<af:inlineFrame id="if3" shortDesc="This is an inline frame"
source="#{oracleReportBean.oraReportUrl}"
styleClass="AFStretchWidth"
inlineStyle="height:600px;">
</af:inlineFrame>
</af:panelWindow>

11. SHOWING THE ORACLE REPORT
• ….. and the result…..

12. CAN I USE FMW REPORTING TOOLS ?

13. ORACLE BI PUBLISHER

14. ORACLE BI PUBLISHER

15. ORACLE BI PUBLISHER

16. ORACLE BI PUBLISHER

17. PREPARING THE CALL
• Create a bean and method to invoke the report
<managed-bean id="__13">
<managed-bean-name id="__14">biPublisherBean</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class id="__15">
com.blogspot.lucbors.reporting.view.orarep.BiPublisherBean
</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope id="__16">request</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
• Provide report parameters
private static final String RAPPORT_SERVER_HOST_PARAM =
"http://192.168.56.101:7001/xmlpserver/~weblogic/";
private static final String RAPPORT_GENERAL_USER_PARAM = "<UN>";
private static final String RAPPORT_GENERAL_PASSWORD_PARAM = "<PW>";

18. CONSTRUCTING THE CALL
• Construct Report Server URL; Including the parameters
public void startBiReport(ActionEvent event)
{
StringBuffer reportUrl = new StringBuffer();
reportUrl.append(getRapportServerHost());
reportUrl.append("/"+"EmployeesPerDepartment"+".xdo");
// add standard params
addStandardParams(rapport,reportUrl);
// add report-specific params
addReportParams(rapport, reportUrl);
sLog.fine("Rapport start URL: "+reportUrl);
setReportUrl(reportUrl.toString());
……..

19. CALL AND SHOW THE REPORT
• Call ………
<af:commandToolbarButton text="Run BI Publisher Report" id="cb3“
actionListener="#{oracleReportBean.startBiReport}">
<af:showPopupBehavior popupId=":::showBiRpt" triggerType="click"/>
</af:commandToolbarButton>
• ……. And Show the report
<af:popup id="showBiRpt" animate="default">
<af:panelWindow id="pw3" modal="true"
title="External Internet Info in a Modal Popup"
contentHeight="625" contentWidth="700" resize="on">
<af:inlineFrame id="if3" shortDesc="This is an inline frame"
source="#{<…BI report source>}"
styleClass="AFStretchWidth"
inlineStyle="height:600px;">
</af:inlineFrame>
</af:panelWindow>

20. SHOWING THE BI PUBLISHER REPORT

21. ARE THERE OPEN SOURCE TOOLS ?

22. JASPER REPORTS

23. JASPER REPORTS - IREPORT

24. JASPER REPORT QUERY

25. CREATING JASPER REPORTS
• Jasper  iReport as design tool
– Select a report template
– Create a new report based on a query
– Add parameters
– Test report in iReport

26. PREPARING JDEVELOPER AND ADF
• Make sure to add Jasper libraries to ADF project

27. PREPARING THE CALL
• Create a bean and method to invoke the report
<managed-bean id="__13">
<managed-bean-name id="__14">jasperReportBean</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class id="__15">
com.blogspot.lucbors.reporting.view.orarep.JasperReportBean
</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope id="__16">request</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>

28. CALLING THE JASPER REPORT
• How to invoke the Jasper report ?
– Get a handle to your template
InputStream is = new FileInputStream (
new File("C:/ReportingTools/myReports/MyFirstReport.jrxml"));
– Define the file that will hold the generated report
OutputStream os=new FileOutputStream(
new File(this.filepath+this.reportname));
– Optionally fill parameters
Map parameters = new HashMap();
parameters.put("P_DEPARTMENT_ID", getDepartmentId());

29. CALL AND SHOW THE REPORT
• Call ………
<af:commandToolbarButton text="Run Oracle Report" id="cb3“
actionListener="#{oracleReportBean.runOracleReport}">
<af:showPopupBehavior popupId=":::showOraRpt" triggerType="click"/>
</af:commandToolbarButton>

30. JASPER REPORTING
• Invoke the report ………
JasperDesign jasperDesign = JRXmlLoader.load(is);
JasperReport jasperReport = JasperCompileManager.compileReport(jasperDesign);
JasperPrint jasperPrint =
JasperFillManager.fillReport(jasperReport, parameters, conn);
JasperExportManager.exportReportToPdfStream(jasperPrint, os);
• ……. And Show the result
JasperViewer.viewReport(jasperPrint, false);

31. JASPER REPORTING
• ….. And the result….

32. I DONT WANT MY OWN REPORTSERVER

33. REPORTING FROM THE CLOUD

34. DOCMOSIS REPORTING

35. CREATING TEMPLATES

36. UPLOAD TO THE CLOUD

37. CALLING THE CLOUD FROM ADF
• Setup a connection
• Build the request
• Write request to outputstream

38. PREPARING THE CALL
• Create a bean and method to invoke the report
<managed-bean id="__13">
<managed-bean-name id="__14">docmosisReportBean</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class id="__15">
com.blogspot.lucbors.reporting.view.docmosis.DocmosisReportBean
</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope id="__16">request</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
• Provide report parameters
private static final String DWS_RENDER_URL =
"https://dws.docmosis.com/services/rs/render";
private static final String ACCESS_KEY = “<your acces key>";
private static final String OUTPUT_FORMAT = "pdf";
private static final String OUTPUT_FILE = "myWelcome." + OUTPUT_FORMAT;

39. CONSTRUCTING THE CALL
• Construct Report Server URL; Including the parameters
private static String buildRequestForEmployee() {
// the name of the template in our cloud account we want to use
String templateName = "/KScopeDemoTemplate.doc";
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
// Start building the instruction
sb.append("<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>");
sb.append("<render n");
sb.append("accessKey="").append(ACCESS_KEY).append("" ");
sb.append("templateName="").append(templateName).append("" ");
sb.append("outputName="").append(OUTPUT_FILE).append("">n");

40. CONSTRUCTING THE CALL
• Adding the Data
// now add the data specifically for this template
sb.append("<datan");
sb.append(" date="").append(new Date()).append(""n");
sb.append(" title="Creating documents with Docmosis from ADF ">n");
String[] messages = {
"Reporting from ADF Applications - What are the Options? John Flack",
"ADF Data Visualization Tips & Techniques. Chris Muir",
"How to Bring Common UI Patterns to ADF. Luc Bors",
"and many many more......"};
for (int i = 0; i < messages.length; i++) {
sb.append("<suggestions msg="").append(messages[i]).append(""/>n");
}
sb.append("</data>n");
sb.append("</render>n");

41. CALL AND SHOW THE REPORT
• Call ………
<af:commandToolbarButton text="Run docmosis Report" id="cb5"
actionListener="#{docmosisReportBean.runDocmosisReport}">
<af:showPopupBehavior popupId=":::showDocmosisReport"
triggerType="action"/>
</af:commandToolbarButton>
• ……. And Show the report
<af:popup id="showDocmosisReport" animate="default">
<af:panelWindow id="pw2" modal="true" title="The report"
contentHeight="625" contentWidth="700" resize="on">
<af:inlineFrame id="if2" shortDesc="This is an inline frame“
source="/showpdfservlet?name=#{docmosisReportBean.docmosisreportname}"
styleClass="AFStretchWidth"
inlineStyle="height:600px;"></af:inlineFrame>
</af:panelWindow>
</af:popup>

42. SHOWING THE RESULT

43. REPORTING; YOUR OPTIONS

44. COMMON FEATURES

45. PRO’S AND CON’S ?

46. ARE THERE OTHER ALTERNATIVES?

47. MORE REPORTING IN THE FMW TRACK

48. RESOURCES
• OTN – Reports :
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/reports/overvie
w/index.html
• OTN – BI Publisher :
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-
publisher/overview/index.html
• Jasper : http://jasperforge.org/projects/jasperreports
• Docmosis : https://www.docmosis.com/
• OS Reporting overview : http://java-source.net/open-
source/charting-and-reporting
• AMIS tech blog : http://technology.amis.nl
• ADF-EMG site : http://groups.google.com/group/adf-
methodology/web/adf-reporting?pli=1

49. A SPECIAL REPORT
Reporting solutions for ADF Applications
Luc Bors
Oracle Certified ADF Implementation Specialist
AMIS Services, The Netherlands
Oracle ADF Specialized Partner
Monday, June 25, 2012
ODTUG KScope 12
San Antonio, Texas, USA