In most respects, an imported object can be used just as if it were declared by the importing process rather than the server library or connection library process. The following pages explore the effects of library process structure on scope of declarations, task attribute usage, and error handling.

In this discussion, the process that imports an object is referred to as the importing process. The importing process might be a client process (which imports an object through a client library declaration), or a connection library process (which imports an object through a connection library declaration).