BOE XI 3.0 SDK

Hi Everybody,
I am new to this forum.
In our office, we have installed Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.0 recently.. Previously we have the Release 2 version. Using the SDK from release 2, we have created .net application to show the reports from Business objects. But when we migrated from release 2 to 3.0, the issue gets started... we couldn't find the .net SDK for 3.0 and I am getting only the SDK runtime for 3.1.
My question is,
Is BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.0 doesn't come up with .net SDK and it is only support Java?
Regards,
Prakash

Hello Prakash,
You are correct - BOE XI 3.0 does not include the .NET SDK. The .NET SDK was included with BOE XI 3.1. You'll need to move to XI 3.1 in order to upgrade your XI R2 application.
You should be abel to consult your sales person, or create an SAP Business Objects support incident with the Enterprise Install team for additional assistance in getting your BOE XI 3.0 system upgraded correctly to 3.1.
Sincerely,
Dan Kelleher

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Bea

Thanks!
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And what is the jar file that you think it is missing???
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Hello Adam,
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Tim says:
names means you can have five users created, any amount logged on concurently (i.e the administrator could have 10 sessions, usera 20 etc no limit) But you can only create 5 different users names
that means 1 Named user eg: 'A' can login into the enterprise using his credentials and create any amount of enterprise sessions concurrently for self right??
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I am planning to develop a custom web application using BOE 3.1 java SDK's.
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That means, My application "A" will have say 10 users (i.e. 10 userid and passwords). All these users will their different sets of userid's and passwords (custom application users), they can login into the application using application level credentials, however to login into the enterprise the application will internally use only one BO user credential (i.e. only one named user acount info.)
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Is this approach legal in-terms of licensing?
Would appreciate any help on this.
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Thank you very much.
Please see the following post:
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Tim says:
names means you can have five users created, any amount logged on concurently (i.e the administrator could have 10 sessions, usera 20 etc no limit) But you can only create 5 different users names
that means 1 Named user eg: 'A' can login into the enterprise using his credentials and create any amount of enterprise sessions concurrently for self right??
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