Understanding the Crystal Enterprise Object Model

Crystal Enterprise was designed from its inception to be extensible. Rather than provide a “black box” product, the folks at Business Objects made sure that they had a layer on top of the core Crystal Enterprise (CE) services that consisted of a Software Development Kit (SDK). A developer armed with a bit of Crystal Enterprise knowledge can customize the look, feel, and functionality of the product or simply create his own solution from scratch. This chapter provides an introduction to using the Crystal Enterprise SDK to extend the out-of-box product to meet new requirements and challenges.

Previous chapters introduced the core Crystal Enterprise services. These services, including the CMS, Page ...

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