Summary

This chapter has shown that PAD can integrate and automate applications that do not have an API. The ability to address systems with interfaces makes PAD a complete and self-sufficient tool for automation since, typically, in automation scenarios, both legacy applications and modern applications with interfaces have to be integrated. The actions presented in this chapter allow PAD to perform all tasks that would otherwise be covered by a cloud flow, such as including a web service, transmitting and receiving data, and further processing in a UI flow. This makes PAD quite suitable as the sole tool for small to medium integration and automation tasks. However, this can also become complex in some circumstances, as it is not possible to use a dedicated connector for a web application, for example, which can hide a lot of complexity. Furthermore, there are hardly any possibilities for scaling on a local machine with PAD.

We’ll take a closer look at how we can meet these...