Audience

This book provides information for developers who are producing or maintaining clients that access metadata, secure metadata, or manage the SAS Metadata Server.
It is the primary source of information for developers who are producing SAS Java Metadata Interface and SAS Open Metadata Interface clients.
It is a secondary source of information for users of the SAS language interfaces to metadata. The SAS language interfaces to metadata are described in SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata. Users of the SAS language interfaces to metadata need information from this book to be able to format the XML method calls that can be submitted with PROC METADATA.