ReportServer - ReportServer Admin Guide 3.2.0

6.6. SAP Crystal Reports

ReportServer comes with a basic support for SAP Crystal Reports SAP Crystal Reports is the only proprietary reporting component supported by ReportServer and thus, we are not allowed to ship the necessary libraries with the ReportServer release. If you do have a proper Crystal Reports license you are, however, good to go and in the following we describe the necessary steps to work with Crystal from ReportServer.

6.6.1. Prepare ReportServer for Crystal

In order to use Crystal Reports with ReportServer you must first install the SAP Crystal Reports for Java runtime components (short, the Java Reporting Component (JRC)). You'll find these, for example, on the SAP download http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-29757. Here, look for Runtime Libraries and download the there located archive (around 45 MB). Unzip the archive and locate the lib directory. This includes all the additional libraries you have to install to get going with Crystal Reports. The following jars are needed:

com.azalea.ufl.barcode.1.0.jar
CrystalCommon2.jar
CrystalReportsRuntime.jar
cvom.jar
DatabaseConnectors.jar
icu4j.jar
jai_imageio.jar
JDBInterface.jar
jrcerom.jar
keycodeDecoder.jar
logging.jar
pfjgraphics.jar
QueryBuilder.jar
webreporting-jsf.jar
webreporting.jar
XMLConnector.jar
xpp3.jar

That is, all jars except the commons-*.jar and log4j.jar. Note that these should not be included as ReportServer already ships with newer versions of these components. Copy the above mentioned jars to the ReportServer WEB-INF/lib directory and start ReportServer.

6.6.2. Use Crystal Reports

Reports for Crystal Reports come in the .rpt file format. All that is needed to configure a Crystal report in ReportServer is to upload the corresponding .rpt-file. Similarly to Birt, you can either configure a datasource via the interface or leave it open in which case Crystal will use the datasource configured within the report.