Crystal Reports XI Official Guide

SDK integration, covered in Chapter 30, is the most powerful and flexible way to incorporate Business Objects functionality into your applications. However, it requires familiarity with programming and might be daunting. As described in this chapter, integrating reports using URL dispatchers, by contrast, is quick and easyrequiring only a knowledge of creating URLs. Other component integration requires some programming, but in most cases it provides more functionality in less time than writing code from scratch or cutting and pasting from samples. Beware of the little things, however. Many customers find the Java server faces development paradigm difficult to understand and the JSR-168 Business Objects PIKs do not support security integration out of the box.