OSA: Apple MacOS Open
Scripting Architecture
Index: Requirements
Problems Companies
Platforms Languages
Software Research
- Language neutral interface for applications to expose objects and
functions to each other.
- Compares with Microsoft OLE
Automation.
- AppleScript has the definitive OSA
interface.
- Frontier has a good OSA interface. Dave
Winer talked the Apple person implementing OSA to make it language neutral
so frontier could be a first class player. It was another layer they had
to add, and it seems to have worked, although I don't know of any of other
languages that have bought into OSA as much as Frontier.