NSN provides server components that you can script together to build network applications and provide server-side task automation. These components are executed using the VBScript syntax-compatible language in NSN. They are intended to be used by NetWare programmers and can be consumed by languages such as Perl, C/C++, and Java, as well as NSN.
As a matter of terminology, it is important not to confuse the two acronyms UCS and UCX.
UCS stands for Universal Component System, the conversion layer between RAD languages and output components, while UCX means Universal Component Extension, which is an implementation of the UCS. For clarity, this document uses "UCS" as a standalone term to refer to the overall component system concept, and "UCX component" to describe a specific implementation of the UCS, as in "the Directory UCX component." Where the term "UCX" is dropped for brevity (as in "the Directory component"), the component's denotation does not change.
For a complete list of Microsoft* FrontPage compatible components, see FrontPage Compatible Components
. You can now develop Web pages using FrontPage and publish them on a NetWare server. The new NWDir
component provides easy access to Novell Directory Services (NDS) from scripting languages. It allows complete access to the management, maintenance, and administrative components associated with NDS programming in the lower level SDK environment.