What are Web Connectors?

Web Connectors convert requests from your web server into a format the Web Component Server (WCS) can understand. The Web Connector must be installed on the machine that is running your web server software. This section explains the web server and Web Connector configuration that is required in order to provide effective communication between the web server and Crystal Enterprise on Windows.

You can install Web Connectors on web servers running on Windows or UNIX. However, you only need to install a Web Connector on UNIX when the UNIX web server must communicate with a WCS running on a Windows machine. When Crystal Enterprise itself is installed on UNIX, you do not need a Web Connector.

Note:    There are a few other cases where a Web Connector is not required:

• When you have deployed Java Crystal Enterprise components in your Windows installation of Crystal Enterprise (as described in Java component installation), and your Windows installation of Crystal Enterprise does not include a WCS.
• When you have created an entirely customized ASP, ASPX, or JSP environment where your custom applications interface with the Crystal Enterprise SDKs, directly communicating with the framework and its components.