The Server Tier: Overview of the Crystal Enterprise Services
Now that it's clear that the functionality of individual Crystal Enterprise servers is exposed through plug-ins, it's important to understand exactly what that functionality is. The Crystal Enterprise servers are designed to register themselves with the Crystal Enterprise Framework and provide one or more services that can be consumed by other servers or by the plug-ins described in the last section. The services offered by each of the servers is dependent on the type of task that the server is expected to perform.
The following list shows the servers that are delivered with Crystal Enterprise. These servers can be thought of as core servers:
Crystal Management Server
Web Component Server ...
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