What is the difference between the Crystal Web Component Server and Active Server Pages?
The Crystal Web Component Server (formerly known as the Crystal Web Reports Server) is a group of components that are included and installed as part of Crystal Reports versions 7 and 8. These components work with your web server using the Netscape API, Internet Information Server API, or CGI to render your Crystal Reports as they are requested. The Crystal Web Reports Server offers built-in caching of report data that may be beneficial if your report data does not change frequently and does not vary from user to user. However, the effectiveness of the caching may be negligible if your reports will frequently be run with different parameters or record selection formulas. (Beginning with Crystal Reports 8.5, this functionality is provided as part of Crystal Enterprise.) The Active Server Pages created by ReCrystallize Pro use the VBScript programming language to run your reports directly with the Crystal Reports Report Designer Component (RDC). Using ASP to run reports gives developers p
