The Application Tier

Various applications dynamically create end-user pages, most typically in HTML. These applications are processed on an application server. In the past few years, the Enterprise application server market has consolidated dramatically, with two main camps now extant: the Microsoft .Net technologies and the Java technologies.

Crystal Enterprise provides a Software Development Kit in three formats for each of the three most popular development environments: COM, Java, and .Net. These allow an organization maximum flexibility in integrating Crystal Enterprise into its applications.

The COM CE-SDK includes a set of COM objects that interact with Crystal Enterprise via the Crystal Enterprise Framework. Typical installations that ...

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