This document is intended to be the Application Developer’s resource for assistance with using the SSA-NAME3 API Functions.

The API gives user developed application programs the ability to use the functionality within SSANAME3. The API is available with wrappers for Active X as well as the standard interfaces for C/C++, COBOL and Java.

The API supports both local calls to the SSA-NAME3 Callable Routine (DLL, Shared Library, Load Module etc), as well as socket calls (through TCP/IP) to a server implementation of the Callable Routine.

The ability to call the SSA-NAME3 Server from a remote client has been provided so that a program may be developed and tested on one platform (example, a PC) while having its SSA-NAME3 calls executed on another platform (example, a server). This may increase the flexibility of the development and testing phases.