Installing InfoView

InfoView is developed to run in a multitiered architecture on both the Java and .NET frameworks. The multitiered architecture results in the processing load being spread over the Web Server, Application Server, Reporting Server, and Database Server. These two editions are, for the most part, identical in functionality, and both can be run simultaneously on a server that supports both the .NET and J2EE frameworks. This becomes useful when dealing with heterogeneous environments when an organization might have both Java and .NET environments.

Installing the Java Edition

Desktop.war is the application that needs to be deployed on the Java Application Server. For a listing of supported application servers, see Platforms.txt on the BusinessObjects XI CD. The supported Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is the same JVM the appropriate Application Server supports. See the associated Application Servers documentation on how to deploy a WAR file. Likewise, the supported Web Server is whatever the associated Application Server supports.

This Web Archive or WAR file can typically be found after installation under /Business Objects Enterprise 11/java/applications/desktop.war. InfoView requires components of the Java API to run; however, this WAR file includes all the Java API JAR files required, hence this is self-contained and has all you need to deploy and run InfoView on a Java Application Server.

Installing the .NET Edition

The .NET InfoView version is an ASP.NET application that runs on Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) versions 5 and 6. If this is selected at installation time, the install will search for IIS on the server and attempt to install InfoView. This is an ASPX application, so IIS needs to be set up accordingly to allow ASPX pages to be run. Consult your product (IIS) documentation for the appropriate configuration.

Like its Java version, the .NET version of InfoView is based on the BusinessObjects .NET Software Development Kit (SDK) and hence this is also required on the server, or at least access to the assemblies needs to be granted. It requires the .NET Framework on the IIS server and if one is not found, it will install version 1.1. If a different version or configuration is required, it is generally recommended that the framework be installed ahead of time.

A default install will create a virtual mapping on IIS called BusinessObjects and this will map to a local path of c:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 11\Web Content\. Under this virtual directory of BusinessObjects, you will find a subfolder of Enterprise11 and below that you will find an InfoView folder that stores all the required files for the InfoView application. Hence, the default URL for accessing the .NET version of InfoView is http://<Server>/businessobjects/enterprise11/InfoView/.

By default, this URL usually runs logon.aspx, which is different from previous versions of Crystal Enterprise.