NAME

Siebel::COM - Perl extension to access Siebel application through Microsoft COM

SYNOPSIS

  package Siebel::COM::App;

  use Moose;
  use namespace::autoclean;

  with 'Siebel::COM';

  sub BUILD {

      my $self = shift;

      my $app = Win32::OLE->new( $self->get_ole_class() )
        or confess( 'failed to load ' . $self->get_ole_class() . ': ' . $! );

      $self->_set_ole($app);

  }

DESCRIPTION

Siebel::COM was developed to make it easier to use Microsoft COM to access a Siebel application, either a Siebel Enterprise or a Siebel Client, without having to go down the details of Win32::OLE.

Inspiration for this distribution came from the article (http://jbrazile.blogspot.com.br/2008/03/siebel-com-programming-with-perl.html) wrote by Jason Brazile and the despicable information in the documentation (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14004_01/books/OIRef/OIRef_About_Object_Interfaces_and_Programming_Environment6.html#wp1026164) of Oracle saying that Perl cannot be used to connected to Siebel with COM.

Siebel::COM should be used directly only for maintenance or extensions since it is a Moose role. You probably want to look for subclasses of Siebel::COM::App to start connecting to a Siebel environment.

This roles provides the _ole attribute, with the accessors get_ole and the "private" _set_ole, which holds a reference to the Win32::OLE object that is used to really provide functionality from Siebel DLL's.

EXPORT

None by default.

METHODS

get_ole

Expects no parameter. Returns the Win32::OLE associated with the class.

CAVEATS

A known issue is that this distribution only works with Microsoft Windows OS (which should be garanteed by Devel::AssertOS).

Having a full Siebel Client setup in the OS is also required. It is also known that Siebel COM is not supported in 64 bits systems due incompability of the required Siebel DLLs.

SEE ALSO

• Siebel::COM::App::DataServer

• Siebel::COM::App::DataControl

• Project website: https://github.com/glasswalk3r/siebel-com

AUTHOR

Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior, <arfreitas@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 of Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior, <arfreitas@cpan.org<>

This file is part of Siebel COM project.

Siebel COM is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Siebel COM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Siebel COM. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.