in reply to Perl with 3rd party Apps

All things are possible, but it depends on the type of interface that Business Objects exposes to the DLL.

If it's a OLE Automation type of thing (is it still called that or is it COM now?) then you can use Win32::OLE or some such to access it.

If you have a C API, then you can have the fun of writing an extension module using XS.

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