Using ReportCaster Web Services

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ReportCaster Web Services allow you to develop applications in the .NET or Java environments and perform ReportCaster functionality from it. A business can pass parameters from its own application to ReportCaster in order to create a schedule to run a WebFOCUS report at a certain time and distribute it to e-mail, Report Library or FTP. ReportCaster Web Services:using using ReportCaster Web Services

Businesses benefit from Web Services because of their accessibility and efficiency. ReportCaster Web Services allow businesses to use their own customized front-end interfaces to implement a variety of ReportCaster capabilities.

WebFOCUS provides the following Web Services products:

WebFOCUS Web Services Enablement, also known as the Publish option, can present WebFOCUS reports as Web Services operations. It allows external applications built with Web Services supported languages (such as C++, C#, VB.NET, Java, and Flash Action Script) to integrate the report output. It also includes a set of generic Web Services operations that allow an application to integrate some basic WebFOCUS functionality.
ReportCaster Web Services are included in the WebFOCUS Web Services Enablement option. Applications can be built that give a user a choice of whether to run a WebFOCUS report immediately and have the output be returned to that application or schedule a WebFOCUS report to run at a specified time with the output sent to an e-mail address or Report Library.

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What Can You Do Through a ReportCaster Web Service?

You can do the following through ReportCaster Web Services: ReportCaster Web Services:using using ReportCaster Web Services

Create a schedule to run a WebFOCUS report.
Maintain ReportCaster Address Books.
Retrieve output stored in Report Library.
Maintain Report Library.
Manage submitted jobs.
Retrieve and Maintain ReportCaster logs.
Maintain ReportCaster security.

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The ReportCaster WSDL Creation Utility

ReportCaster provides a WSDL creation utility, which describes the capabilities available through a ReportCaster Web Service. A WSDL file is an XML document that defines the input parameters for ReportCaster Web Service functions, the expected output, and the method for calling each function. The ReportCaster WSDL utility creates a file for each of the ReportCaster Web Services.

.NET or Java programmers can use this to develop their own applications. ReportCaster WSDL creation utility;WSDL files;WSDL creation utility in ReportCaster Web Services

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