Special Edition Using® Crystal Reports® 10

Configuring the Application Server

Although building Web applications in Java is meant to be independent of application servers, the J2EE standard tends to be interpreted differently for each vendor's application server. Because of this, each application server has a different way of performing Web application configuration. The general rule is that there is a folder structure like this:

\webApplicationFolder
    \WEB-INF
        web.xml
        \lib
        \classes

When setting up the Java Reporting Component for a given Web application, the following steps are required:

• Copy all the Java Reporting Component .jar files from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Crystal Decisions\2.5\java\lib into the lib folder.
• Copy all the third-party .jar files from C:\Program Files\Common ...