Supporting Components

Within the Program Folder are several supporting applications / files. These support the operation of Flow.

Database Drivers

The database drivers facilitate direct access to different database platforms via the platforms client library. This ensures high speed access to databases.

dbexpdb2.dll provides access to IBM DB2

dbexpinf.dll provides access to Informix

dbexpint.dll provides access to Interbase

dbexpmss.dll provides access to MS SQL Server and SQL Compact

dbexpmysql.dll provides access to MySQL databases

dbexpodbc.dll provides access to ODBC data sources

dbexpora.dll provides access to Oracle databases

dbexppge.dll provides access to PostgreSQL databases

dbxasa30.dll provides access to Sybase SQL Anywhere

dbxase30.dll provides access to Sybase Enterprise

libpq.dll is the PostgreSQL client library. Provided to simply installation.

midas.dll provides in memory data sets for local data operations

oledbexpress.dll provides access to ADO and Jet databases like MS Access

SSL Drivers

These drivers support secure connections via SSL. These drivers are part of the OpenSSL library.

libeay32.dll

libssl32.dll

ssleay32.dll

INI Files

Connections.ini contains a list of the configuration databases available on the computer. These can be edited from the Flow login screen by selecting Setup Connections.

Flow.ini contains some basic setting. These settings are also stored in the configuration database but if changed here can be used to alter the Flow configuration.

Plugins

*.fpi files are custom plugins created by third parties for use with Flow. Custom plugins provide added functionality to actions. Flow provides some standard plugins on its web site.

Wsdl Proxy Generation

Wsdl.exe supports the generation of C# proxies from WSDL files.

XSD Schema Inference

Infer.exe and XSDInfer.dll support the inference of XSD schemas from XML instances.

XML to object classes

XSDObjectGen.exe and XSDObjectGenLib.dll supports conversion of XML to C# classes.

Other

FloMenu.dll driver provides hooks into the Windows context menus when right clicking certain file types. On selected file types configured in General Setup a option will appear in the right click menu to process that file with Flow.

Reset Flow.bat is a simple script file that resets all Flow applications running on a machine. It is a quick method to restart the Flow system.

msvcr71.dll is the Microsoft C Runtime and is required on some computers