Unix Scripting Host

[Nils O. Selåsdal]

"Gerhard Häring" <gerhard.nospam at bigfoot.de> wrote in message
news:slrn9jt7s3.a56.gerhard.nospam at lilith.hqd-internal...
> Please excuse this off-topicish post. I was looking for something
similar to
> the Windows Scripting Host in the Unix world: a library where an
application
> can register functions and types that can then be used by any
scripting
> language that bothers to implement the "Unix Scripting Host"
interface. The
> application language should not be limited to C or C++.
>
> The closest thing I could find was XPCOM from the Mozilla project. I
thought
> that KDE2 or GNOME might offer this already, but I didn't find
anything (except
> the relatively heavyweight CORBA approach).
>
> Any suggestions/pointers?
There are dcop in kde2.
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/dcop.html
http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/python/index.html
Python,perl , java. ,ruby and c++ have dcop bindings, and its far from
heavy.