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We are planning to develop a ticketing and file/document delivery system.

We will be using sharepoint at the background, and will develop our custom interface.

In terms of the articles and discussions, the performance of server and client side apis is better than web services(obviously). so web service option dropped from our list.

Apparently, Server-side api is more comprehensive than client-side api, but what are the things that cannot be done in client-side api, but can be done in server-side api? is there any comparison of these two?

In one of the articles I have read, it says that

Any application that uses these APIs must be physically deployed on the server.

For example, the server-side object model provides the most extensive set of options for developing customizations, but it can only be used on computers that are running a version of SharePoint 2010

If I use server-side dlls on my custom project, will the application server require Sharepoint to be installed?

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    Just to add a comment here. I think the COM is great for smaller tasks like data aggregation, but anything serious I would consider writing a custom WCF service that could allow you to wrap the server-side api and gain access to parts of the object model that the COM does not have like versioning.
    – Robert Kaucher
    Mar 13, 2012 at 12:52
  • I'm curious why web services were dropped immediately. Can you explain why you think it would be slow? Also when @RobertKaucher said COM I thought Component Object Model instead of Client Object Model.
    – Kit Menke
    Mar 13, 2012 at 13:38
  • so you mean that, I should write wrapper service and host it in Sharepoint server. Then consume it on the application which I am going to write? Would that have performance issues though?
    – AnarchistGeek
    Mar 13, 2012 at 13:51
  • @KitMenke it was stated in an MSDN article, that is why it dropped. I would be grateful if there is a comparison in terms of performance though.
    – AnarchistGeek
    Mar 13, 2012 at 13:53
  • I assume the context of this forum gives COM the meaning of Client Object Model unless the context would be switched based on the content of the post, but point taken. I'm also curious as to why web services were dropped as an option, especially since the client object model uses the same web services that are considered slow by the questioner.
    – Robert Kaucher
    Mar 13, 2012 at 13:53

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You can call the server side API from Microsoft.SharePoint.dll (so called server side object model) ONLY LOCALLY on the SharePoint frontend webserver machine. It's by design.

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