1. Introduction

As the administrator of OracleAS Reports Services, you want to track server activity and monitor the success and failure of server jobs. OracleAS Reports Services enables you to set up notifications, so that you are notified when a job finishes on the Reports Server. You can use default notification that is provided with OracleAS Reports Services (i.e., e-mail), or plug in any type of notification you want using the Oracle Reports Java API. For example, if a job fails, you can have a notification sent to a pager. Or, if a job succeeds, the user can receive notification through e-mail. You also check the Reports Plugin exchange to find new Notifications.

Oracle Reports enables you to "plug" in any notifications you wish, using the provided API. This tutorial will show you how to write your own notification, using the Mail Notification as example.

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

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

Note that the Mail Notification sample is certified with Oracle Reports 9i.