Integrating Uniface with other technologies

Introduction

End-to-end integration focuses on taking an organization's business to the Internet. Traditionally, efforts concentrated on what are known as tightly coupled systems using component models such as COM, CORBA and EJB Enterprise JavaBeans. This is the most challenging tasks for IT organizations.

Most projects focused on integrating back-office systems, whereas business-to-business e-commerce creates the need for customer-facing, web-based applications. These applications leverage the integration of back-office systems and create a completely new front end for customers, suppliers and partners.
Integrating various technologies that may be from different manufactures and include multiple release versions is a complicated task. Although standard connectors and adapters make integration easier, specific situations require customized integration. When developers need to connect APIs at a low level, this becomes a lengthy and costly exercise. The need for an environment, such as Uniface, that allows application developers to work at a higher level of abstraction, while leveraging standard connectors and adapters, is vital.

Our plan is to have several sections related with Uniface integration with 3rd party software, such as Microsoft world (DDE, VBX, OLE, OCX, COM, .NET) and non-Microsoft world. so feel free to share with the rest of the Uniface community your knowledge. As always any feedback will be welcome. Help us to help you !

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Documents

Article	Description
Using an OCX control within UNIFACE	OLE Custom Controls and OCX are reusable software components designed to work in containers that support OLE 2.0. The OCXs are more powerful and more flexible than the VBX custom controls they will replace...
COM CALL-OUT	Talking about COM call-out for Office automation (Word & Excel) Request for the PowerPoint presentation to
Uniface 8.3 and Crystal Reports 9 via COM	Many thanks to thomas.young@young-consulting.de to explain us how to integrate Crystal Reports and Uniface 8.3 via COM, his pdf explains how to call-out CR, build signatures, and so on. Now we are waiting for a .exp.

Code/Components

Item	Description
Integrate Uniface and Microsoft technologies	Some examples about the HOT topic Integrate Uniface and Microsoft technologies Really simple and easy, includes a ppt, microsoft com docu and some forms, signatures for I.Explorer and MediaPlayer Read the readme.txt First !
UNIFACE-CORBA CALL-OUT TO JAVA COMPONENT	Below are the instructions for setting up the corba-call-out-to-java example. The example's files and many of the instructions below were borrowed from a MyUNIFACE document at http://myuniface.com/frontline/ntk/howto/vbraccount.htm. The document below contains additional instructions that will make the example easier to set up.
Uniface Signatures to access Microsoft Excel worksheets with examples.	Uniface 8.3 Signatures to access Microsoft Excel worksheets using COM. Submited by Bernd Morauf at Bernd.Morauf@Extern.Infraserv.com, with some FRM examples, please read the context.txt file.

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