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Is is possible to use apex_fop.jar with WebLogic?

JSebastianDec 11 2012 — edited Dec 13 2012
Folks,

I have an APEX application that was printing PDFs using BI PUblisher as the reports server. It was working just fine.
We are now upgrading our environment and the BI Publisher software is no longer being used (except as a reports server for APEX) and we are planning on dropping it.

I've seen an article on OC4J and deploying apex_fop.jar to serve as a print server for APEX applications to print to PDF.
It's my understanding that the replacement for OC4J is now WebLogic.
I've got Weblogic 10.3.5.
I created a new WebLogic domain and an Admin Server that runs on port 7010.
I'm pretty certain that I've deployed the fop.war file to the AdminServer correctly because I can see it as deployed in my WebLogic Console.
I've then started the deployed fop application and it appears that it is running from the WebLogic Console.

I then change my APEX installation's Manage Instance settings for the reports server to the host on which the WebLogic Admin Server is running.
The Admin Server runs on port 7010 so I put port 7010 into the Print Server port and in the Print Server Script box, I put /fop/apex_fop.jsp

I saved the changes.

I now try to run my application (which was working just fine when pointing to the BI Publisher port) but I get the following error:

Not Found
The requested URL /pls/apexpnx9/f was not found on this server.

dads.conf file entry for /pls/apexpnx9 is the APEX instance in which I just modified the reports server settings.

I'm wondering if anyone else has experience deploying the fob.war file on WebLogic server and then setting up the APEX print server settings?
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