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Installing Oracle COM Automation

This chapter provides an overview of the Oracle COM Automation installation. The following topics are included:

• Oracle COM Automation Feature Components

• System Requirements

  See Also: For installation instructions, see the Oracle8i Installation Guide for Windows NT.

Oracle COM Automation Feature Components

The Oracle COM Automation package contains the features and demos that illustrate how to use this product to solve real-world problems. It includes the following components:

• Oracle COM Automation feature (com81.dll)

• PL/SQL installation and definition script (comwrap.sql).

• Oracle COM Automation demonstration programs

All the components, except com81.dll, are located in the oracle_base\oracle_home\com directory

System Requirements

Oracle COM Automation feature requires an Oracle8i database and Windows NT 4.0. Before you install Oracle COM Automation feature, you must have a functioning Oracle8i database on the computer.

To use the Oracle COM Automation feature demonstrations discussed in Chapter 5, "Using Oracle COM Automation Demos", you need to first install the application that is used in the demonstration program. The application must be installed before you run any of demonstration scripts.