What is Business Objects Enterprise Java SDK?

Question

First, I'm sorry if my questions seems to be a noob question. I'm investigating the jars in our lib folder and found these jars:

• jrcerom.jar
• rasapp.jar
• rascore.jar
• ReportTemplate.jar
• Serialization.jar
• webreporting-core.jar

Upon researching, it seems that these jars came from what they called Business Objects Enterprise Java SDK.

• What is Business Objects Enterprise Java SDK?
• Is it not a part of the normal Java SDK distribution?
• What does it do?

I also saw on some websites that those jars seems to be needed to use Crystal Report. But we don't have any Crystal Report on our web application. Any idea what it's for?

Some info which I'm not sure if useful: We are using Spring3 for our web application and we're running it on Tomcat.

Answer 1

Take a look at this forum topic, specifically the 3rd post from the top (the one that lists the JARs for Business Objects):

http://www.forumtopics.com/busobj/viewtopic.php?p=417793

Also take a look at SAP / Crystal Reports Business Objects:

http://devlibrary.businessobjects.com/BusinessObjectsXIR2SP2/en/devsuite.htm