CSP vs ASP

[jmcclain]

I need some advice. My team is pretty familiar with ASP, jscript...and other web dev languages. We are just getting up to speed on Crystal.

We are creating a web app that allows users to select a report and parameters from one page and generate the selected Crystal report. The reports are being published on CE9.

Our web app is very similar to the Xtreme example app included with CE, except we added parameters to the page.

My question is when should we be using .CSP vs .ASP? It seems like from the examples I've seen I can do almost everything in .ASP?

Originally we had just been calling everything .CSP, but we ran into a problem today where one page seems to only work as .asp page, so I thought I would reach out to get some opinions.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[synapsevampire]

Here's a whitepaper on CE 8:

http://support.businessobjects.com/communityCS/TechnicalPapers/CE8_ASP_vs_CSP.pdf

-k

 

[jmcclain]

Thanks - I had actually found that whitepaper earlier today.

So correct me if I'm wrong - since I can run this app on an IIS server, I should just use .ASP pages and forget about .csp?

Correct?

 

[synapsevampire]

There's nothing that states that you must use CSP.

I leverage a lot of exisiting CSP, but we also use ASP. I'm currently in a CE 8.5 environment.

-k

 

[KingfisherINC]

CSP Will be depricated, along with the WCS, in future versions (after v10) so stick to ASP (or .NET, JSP)

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
If you do use .asp instead of .csp for the Crystal-related web pages, a problem can arise when using a web connector on an IIS server that does not have Crystal Enterprise installed. The configuration of the Web Connector service needs the file extension specified that will be 'passed' to the CE servers for handling..If you use .asp for all your web pages, how will the connector determine what should be handled by the CE services and which are actually 'standard' stuff?

 

[Turkbear]

Hi again..
I must learn to read more carefully..KingfisherINC did indicate that the WCS was also being deprecated ( I'm assuming it means the Web Connector, not the Web Component Server)..That would resolve my posting's concern.

Does that mean, though, that the use of a Web Server without CE installed will no longer be supported?