This paper describes a flexible way to integrate existing applications and tools into a component-based integration framework which uses CORBA as communication middleware. To integrate an application into this framework it must be encapsulated in order to build components which conform to its component architecture. The new concept described here is based on the scripting language Python which is used to control the execution of the encapsulated application. The CORBA DSI is used to create the application dependent component interface which can be extended by the Python script.