Technical Infrastructure

Introduction
In this section, the required technical basics for using Expleo Public API will be explained.

Access to the public API can be obtained through

• Visual Basic for Applications
• .NET languages
• Java
• all languages/technologies that support COM (Component Object Model) by Microsoft, e.g. PowerShell.

Technically, a client/server scheme is implemented using CORBA for communication. In practice this means:

1. The respective public API programme in one of the supported languages forms the client component.
2. The Public API Server of one of the workspace environments forms the server component.
3. The client needs to have access to an operational CORBA connection. Therefore, it is not possible to use Expleo Public API on a PC without a Test Center client installed on it.

For configuration and login process it is necessary to differentiate between programming languages/technologies that support CORBA directly and those that do not:

• Supporting CORBA (Java, C++): No additional configuration is required. The user may proceed to section Getting started.
• Not supporting CORBA, but COM (.NET languages like Visual Basic or Visual Basic for Applications, C#)