I've already embedded the html into our (old, self written) reporting framework. in this case, there is no need to show the user the complete html for the embedded report as the parameters are entered in another application. the things i do not like about embedding are: - user/password as parameters in the url (i guess there is some more secure way but i didnt find it yet) - unable to select the datasource for the report via url next point is we have some (more or less) complicated xlsx and pdfs generated in plsql with pldf, sometimes its needed to embedd some graphs into the xlsx/pdf - as image, not as complete html. i think the jr possibilities are great and we use it already for pdf printing in oracle apex - but the possibility to generate plain jpg/png/etc images are really missing ! thanks for your reply :)