Programming Concepts

All Open Clients use equivalent mechanisms to access an application server application service. In general, accessing an application server using an Open Client interface follows this process:

  1. Connect to an application server that supports the required application service, by instantiating an AppObject (and calling connect for SOAP Web services).
  2. Instantiate any other proxy objects whose methods you want to call.
  3. Execute proxy methods that run remote procedures and functions on the application server.
  4. Disconnect from the application server when it is no longer needed.

For more detailed information about specific clients, see Java Open Clients, .NET Open Clients, and Web Services.