1. Introduction

Pluggable destinations can be used to distribute any content that an engine (not only the reports engine) has created in the Reports Server's cache. Oracle Reports provides several out-of-the-box destinations:

• Web
• printer
• e-mail
• file
• OracleAS Portal

You can also define access to your own custom destination by using the Oracle Reports Java APIs to implement a new destination component in the Reports Server. You can choose your jobs to use an out-of-the-box destination or your customized destination component to determine the destination for the output in the cache.

Oracle Reports enables you to "plug" in any destination you wish, using the provided API. This tutorial will show you how to write your own destination, using FTP as an example.

At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to:

• Implement a Destination class with Oracle Reports
• Register a Destination class with Oracle Reports
• Use the Destination with Oracle Reports

Note that the FTP destination sample is certified with Oracle Reports 9i, and is available out-of-the box with Oracle Reports 10g.