Quick Start Guide To Oracle Application Server Reports 9.0.4

I've been working with Oracle Reports for the past couple of days, and whilst the product is good the documentation is pretty poor. The problem with Reports is that it's a developer tool, and the documentation is correspondingly technical and very, very longwinded. As I finally managed to get reports up and running and produce some output, including (after some time) report distribution and bursting, I thought I'd put some notes on the blog in case anyone else has to quickly get to grips with this.

For the purposes of this posting I've been working with Oracle Application Server 9.0.4 running on Solaris. When I started with it, Reports hadn't had any special configuration and I was keen to just get up and running as soon as possible. Therefore what I'm going to go through now is just the bare minimum to get some reports up in a browser. You can read the rest of the article here.