Depending on the business and the resources available, the various servers may be located in distributed locations and the Web applications may also be run from Web servers in a farm and the same can be true for SharePoint servers. In this book, by the word architecture we mean the way by which the preceding elements are put together to work on a single computer. However, it is important to know that this is just one topology (an arrangement of constituent elements) and in general it can be lot more complicated spanning networks and reaching across boundaries.
The Report Server is the centerpiece of the Reporting Services installation. This installation can be deployed in two modes, namely, Native mode or SharePoint Integrated mode. Each mode has a separate engine and an extensible architecture. It consists of a collection of special-purpose extensions that handle authentication, data processing, rendering, and delivery operations...