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Foil 80 Access as an Automation Client-I

From Overview of JDBC and its use with Microsoft Access ARL Database Tutorial -- February 98. by Nancy McCracken(Sangetta Aggarwal, Udayan Parvate, Tom Pulikal)

1	Automation is a technology that allows two separate applications components to communicate with each other as either data exchanges or commands issued by one component for the other to perform.
2	It requires a client and a server. The client uses the services of an automation server. It implements a development language used to write code to control the server. Capacity to use pre-built, robust and debugged software components in applications.
3	Automation Clients are Access, MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visual Basic, and any application supporting VBA.
4	Sessions begin with the client applications creating an object, i.e. establishing a conversation with the server application and telling it which of its objects are required to be controlled.