5.5 Integrating Oracle Forms and Reports

Oracle Reports is installed with OracleAS Single Sign-On enabled.

The best practice for Oracle Forms applications calling integrated Oracle Reports is to use the Oracle Forms Built-in, RUN_REPORT_OBJECT.

When requesting a report from a OracleAS Single Sign-On protected Oracle Forms application, the authenticated user's OracleAS Single Sign-On identity is implicitly passed to the Reports Server with each call to RUN_REPORT_OBJECT Built-in. The OracleAS Single Sign-On identity is used to authenticate the user to the Reports Server for further authorization checking, if required.

A Forms application running in non-OracleAS Single Sign-On mode can run a report on a Single Sign-on secured Reports Server, but fails if the Reports Server requires authorization. Also users must provide their OracleAS Single Sign-On credentials when retrieving the Reports output on the Web.

For more information about integrating Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports, see the white paper Integrating Oracle Forms 10g and Oracle Reports 10g at Oracle Technology Network http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/.