Types of Interfaces - Teradata Meta Data Services

Types of Interfaces

MDS provides a set of object-oriented Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that can be used to:

Create application information metamodels (AIMs).

AIMs define how meta data is stored in the MDS repository and are described in detail in Chapter 2: “Application Information Metamodels (AIMs).”

Add, update and delete meta data objects and collections in the MDS repository.

The interfaces provided are:

C++ API Classes

The set of C++ API classes that can be used in Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and with the Linux C++ compiler.

COM Libraries

The COM Libraries that can be used in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, VBScript, Visual C++ 6.0.

Java Class Library

XML Utility