Intgration of crystal reports in Apex

Hi,
I want integrate crystal reports with apex.
Could any body tell me , is it possible ?

Yes, I'm familiar with Apex's report options. That's fine, but here's the deal: We are on the west coast and our parent company is on the east coast along with the server holding our company's Oracle database and all the security along with it. Our company uses PeopleSoft and I create Crystal Reports that are stored in PS. Because I have to do all of my development remotely, it is ridiculously slow (up to 5 seconds and sometimes even 11 per mouse click - you can pull our your violins, but I'm used to it.) I can write queries remotely on this database and save them as .xls or .csv files locally to dump into Apex, but have no direct access any deeper than that.
We're using APEX to convert a bunch of old Access databases and in the meantime, I thought I had the brilliant idea that if we had our own single user copy of Crystal, I could use the APEX database for Crystal, completely independently of any need for Crystal within APEX. This way, I could use the Apex database to do my development locally, then save the report remotely, open it there on the remote instance of Crystal, make the needed naming changes to formulas and fields and keep a few less gray hairs from growing.
Make sense?

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Here's a link to a thread from a few months back, and I believe the answers will still be about the same.. You need to call a rather long and bloated url to call your Crystal Report File....: Intgration of crystal reports in Apex
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Dear All,
Sales quote layout rows doubled in crystal report layout.
In sales quote layout the rows are doubled. Even in the standard layout. If the quote contains only two rows. Then it is doubled as 4 rows in the crystal report layout.
It is happening in the particular database. Other database are working fine. I request you people to help me to overcome this issue.
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CardName
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ItemCode
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DocTotal
Tax Amount
621
14240621
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621
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354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
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MT0001
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2800
49336
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
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1980
19908.9
354652
18888.46
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14240621
CDR0001
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1650
16590.75
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
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302040001
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65
116.5
7572.5
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
MT0003
Material for P/APPLYING
65
65
4225
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
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31625.05
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354652
18888.46
621
14240621
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18888.46
621
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CDR0001
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18888.46
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354652
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Qty
Unit Price
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14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
302010001
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5293.76
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18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
305010005
BM CM INCLUDING CEMENT
10.055
3630
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354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
302040001
P/APPLYING
65
181.5
11797.5
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18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
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14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
306010001
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with regards

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thanks for reply..
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