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Pjhon
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Hi,

I am new to webFOCUS.I have to do analysis on integration of WebFOCUS with a J2EE web application.The requirement is that there should be seamless integration such as single sign on (Site Minder) and look and feel.The user should not feel that he/she is using a third party reporting tool (WebFOCUS) when running the reports in the J2EE web application.

Can any one of you who has experience in this type of deployment give some information on various ways it can be accomplished including the effort needed?

Thanks for the help.
 
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TexasStingray
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For Intergration into Site Minder is to get ahold of your local branch and see about getting a Security Specialist to provide Best Pratices into Site Minder. WebFOCUS can intergrate into it so that the user are not required to signon again.

Sorry I cannot give more specific info.




Scott

 
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Hi Pjhon,

Technical Memo 4539: Netegrity SiteMinder Integration with WebFOCUS 7.1 may be of interest to you. The technical memo is available on i-Base, the Technical Documentation Library. You will need an InfoResponse ID to access the PDF file.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Jenn
 
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Pjhon
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Hi,

Thanks for your responses regarding site minder security.

Can you share any information on look and feel integration where user should not feel as if he/she is using webfocus when running the reports from J2EE web application?
 
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What you mean by look and feel integration? Are you going to have the input screen in J2EE or in Webfocus? What kind of output you are looking (ie., HTML, PDF, Excel)?

If you have the input screen in J2EE, you can pass the parameters in to Webfocus by using the WFServlet and you can create the report as the way you want your look and feel.

Hope this information helps you, if not tell me specifically about your requirement.

Thanks


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Pjhon
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Hi Kamesh,

Thanks for the response.The requirement is :

We have a J2EE based web application which users will be using to do transaction.It is deployed on internet.This application also needs reporting where users will be running lot of reports such as dashboards,scorecards with drill down features.Instead of developing all these functionalities, we have decided to use BI tool which is WebFOCUS.Now the user interface of WebFOCUS need to be integrated in the J2EE web appplication as one of the section for users to run the report.But the users should not feel that they are using WebFOCUS but actually in the back end it will be webFOCUS server which will be generating the reports and displaying it.

I want to know how this can be accomplished and the effort invloved in it.

Thanks for your help.
 
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Kamesh
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You can achieve this by running the Webfocus as Self-service application.

Are you using Webfocus Dashboard? You can integrate your look and feel of J2EE with webfocus Dashboard. From there you can call the report by passing the parameters you are inputting on the screen. The request will go through WFServlet to your Webfocus server. The WFServlet will come with your installation of Webfocus and it should resides on your webserver.

You can create the Webfocus as an War file and deploy it inside your websphere or weblogic application server.

You can have your webfocus files insides your web application folders and point the app path to that folder in edasprof.prf

Note: I did work on J2EE web application integration with Webfocus. It will work the way you want and the user wont feel that they are using Webfocus.

Hope this information helps,

Thanks


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Pjhon
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Hi Kamesh,

I just had a discussion with our J2EE developers and they told me that this is exactly the type of information they are looking for.

Thanks a lot for your help.
 
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Pjhon,

Also have your Java developers look at the WF and ReportCaster API documentation that is loaded with your WF install. Makes it easy for them to integrate functionality with their Java app. We limit the number of parameters passed "over the wire" by having the UI/Java write most of our parameter values to a series of DB2 tables. We pass the key value over the wire and have FOCUS code read the parameters from the PARM tables for that report key. Works well.

Kevin


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