2. The report web service system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the web service interface receives from the client application a request for rendering a selected report as defined by a WSDL definition, and transports a report content of the selected report to the client application; the report service manager requests rendering of the selected report, receives rendered results, and generates a generalized model of the rendered results; the report web service system further comprises: a selector for selecting relevant objects from the generalized model based on information in the WSDL definition; and a representation formatter for formatting representation of the relevant objects and for providing a formatted objects to the web service interface to return to the client application as the requested report content of the selected report.
2. The report web service system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the web service interface receives from the client application a request for rendering a selected report as defined by a WSDL definition, and transports a report content of the selected report to the client application; the report service manager requests rendering of the selected report, receives rendered results, and generates a generalized model of the rendered results; the report web service system further comprises: a selector for selecting relevant objects from the generalized model based on information in the WSDL definition; and a representation formatter for formatting representation of the relevant objects and for providing a formatted objects to the web service interface to return to the client application as the requested report content of the selected report. 4. The report web service system as recited in claim 2 , wherein the selector comprises a plurality of filters including one or more of: an object ID filter for filtering objects based on a value of an object ID; a context selector for selecting objects based on context of the objects; and a XPath/XQuery handler for filtering based on a path or query defined in the selected report.