Crystal Reports for Eclipse Developer Guide

Overview

The viewers provided are used primarily for generating Dynamic HTML (DHTML) pages that display Crystal reports. As a web application developer, you can use the viewers in your JavaServer Pages (JSPs) and programmatically manipulate them to send customized reports to your users' web browsers. The viewers are therefore a "thin-client" technology—users of your web application don't need to install any additional software onto their computers in order to view the reports. Additionally, some of the viewers provide the ability to generate reports for display on mobile devices such as Personal Digital Assistants.

Note: Crystal Reports Java does not support generating reports for display on mobile devices.
The different viewers provide varying functionality. As such, it is important to choose the viewer technology that is suited for your particular application. The rest of this section describes each viewer technology in more detail and provides common usage scenarios to help in choosing the appropriate viewer.



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