4. Mail Notification Overview

To implement the Mail Notification, you must:

1. implement the Notification class
2. implement a class to send a mail

4.1. Implement the Notification class

The following code handles implementing the Notification API.

PluginMailNotification

Class Name	oracle.reports.plugin.notification.mail.PluginMailNotification
Description	This is the implementation of the Notification interface
implements	oracle.reports.server.Notification

1. init(properties) method

This method receives all the parameter of the notification in the Properties object. All the properties are read here from the Reports Server configuration file, and load them in variable.

This methods also create an instance of the PluginMailService.

2. notify(job) method

This method receives the Job as parameter. Using the Job information, status and parameter, the notify method prepares a mail message using the helper class PluginMailService.

4.2. Implement the Send Mail class

The following code handles implementing the PluginMailService class that send mail using the JavaMail API. JavaMail is part of the J2EE container, you can find more information here. This class is an helper class to send mail, you can reuse it in any context.

PluginMailService

1. constructor(protocol, serverName) method

The constructor create a javamail session on the SMTP server.

2. send(content, from, toList, ccList, bccList, replyTo, subject) method

This method prepares a message with the differents values received as parameters and send it using Java Mail tools.