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Using Discoverer with components of Oracle Application Server

## Using Discoverer with components of Oracle Application Server

This chapter explains how to use Discoverer with components of Oracle Application Server (OracleAS), such as OracleAS Web Cache and OracleAS Portal, and contains the following topics:

- "Using Discoverer with Oracle Enterprise Manager"

- "Using Discoverer with OracleAS Reports"

- "Using Discoverer with OracleAS Web Cache"

- "Using Discoverer with Oracle Warehouse Builder"

- "Using Discoverer with OracleAS Login Server"

- "Using Discoverer with OracleAS Portal"

## Using Discoverer with Oracle Enterprise Manager

Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a common look and feel, behavior and security infrastructure to configure the middle tier web components of OracleAS with a single tool. Using a single tool for all OracleAS components reduces the time spent on administration and configuration. You can use Enterprise Manager to configure Discoverer's middle tier web components.

For more information, see:

- Oracle Application Server Discoverer Configuration Guide

- Oracle Application Server Discoverer Enterprise Manager help

## Using Discoverer with OracleAS Reports

Discoverer users can share workbooks, export them to OracleAS Reports (V7.0 and later) enabling Reports users to open a Discoverer workbook. The workbook SQL, additional formatting and calculations are passed to OracleAS Reports using an XML based workbook. The workbook is translated into an OracleAS Reports-compatible format that can be modified using OracleAS Reports.

In OracleAS Reports the look and feel of the original Discoverer workbook is retained so that the OracleAS Reports user can continue to work on the Report in a standalone fashion. To further emphasize this point: no further interaction with the Discoverer server is required for the Reports user to enhance the file

For more information, see the Oracle Application Server Discoverer Plus User's Guide.

## Using Discoverer with OracleAS Web Cache

OracleAS Web Cache helps e-businesses improve Web site performance issues. Oracle Web Cache is a content-aware server accelerator that improves the performance, scalability and availability of Web sites that run on Oracle Application Server and Oracle8i databases (or later). High accessibility is achieved at high speed by applying the latest caching techniques provided by OracleAS Web Cache.

By storing frequently accessed URLs in memory, OracleAS Web Cache eliminates the need to repeatedly process requests for those URLs on the application Web server. Unlike legacy proxy servers that handle only static documents, OracleAS Web Cache caches both static and dynamically generated content from one or more application Web servers. Because OracleAS Web Cache is able to cache more content than legacy proxy servers, it provides optimal performance by greatly reducing the load on application Web servers.

For more information, see the Oracle Application Server Discoverer Configuration Guide.

## Using Discoverer with Oracle Warehouse Builder

Oracle Warehouse Builder(OWB) can generate Discoverer metadata. You can use OWB and Discoverer Bridge to create a Discoverer EUL in OWB's meta layer, and then create a Discoverer export file (.EEX file). The .EEX file can be imported into a Discoverer EUL using Discoverer Administrator (for more information, see Chapter 3, "How to import EUL objects from a file using the Import Wizard"). The Discoverer EUL retains the folder and item lineage from OWB. You can display the folder and item lineage from OWB by using a Discoverer Lineage workbook. For more detailed information, see the Discoverer Release Notes.

## Using Discoverer with OracleAS Login Server

The OracleAS Login Server provides a framework which allows any web-based client, inside or outside of OracleAS Portal, to use Oracle's Single Sign On (SSO) services. OracleAS Login Server is intended for use with an LDAP server which provides the means for storing and managing all the user credentials.

## Using Discoverer with OracleAS Portal

You can publish Discoverer workbooks and worksheets to OracleAS Portal quickly and easily. OracleAS Portal's intuitive user interface guides you through the publishing process step by step, enabling you to create powerful business intelligence portals with ease.

For more information about publishing to OracleAS Portal, see the Oracle Application Server Discoverer Plus User's Guide.

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