Overview of the LotusScript® Extension for Connectors

The Connectors provide native access to a wide variety of database management system (DBMS) products, ODBC, the platform File system, Enterprise Resource Planning systems, and Transaction Processing systems. The LotusScript® Extension for Connectors (LC LSX) extends these connectors to LotusScript®.

LotusScript® provides an integral programming interface to Notes®. The LotusScript® Extension for Connectors enhances the power of Notes® by extending its scripting to data outside of Notes®. The programming model is independent of the individual connector. This eliminates the need to learn each individual system, while allowing experienced users to access the individual features of a specific system.

For example, through Connectors, Notes® and Web applications have the ability to retrieve and act upon data within agents, during document events, or at the click of a button.

This release of the LC LSX supports access to the following connectors:

• Notes®
• DB2®
• File System
• ODBC
• Oracle
• OLE DB
• Sybase

In addition to these connectors, the LC LSX also supports additional premium connectors, such as the Connector for SAP Solutions These specialized connectors may require additional methods; see the documentation supplied with these connectors for more information.

The LC LSX can be used alone or in conjunction with the Domino® Enterprise Connection Services (DECS) or HCL Enterprise Integrator for Domino® (HEI). Respectively, these technologies provide programmatic and declarative access to external data for application development.