Subj : Re: architecture strategy: JSAPI or XPCOM?
To   : Jason
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Fri Feb 11 2005 06:24 pm

Jason wrote:

> Is it generally easier in such a case to use JSAPI + jsshell & manually
> create / instantiate the wrapper Javascript objects, or to make things
> XPCOM-ready and then automatically suck them in using xpcshell?


The latter. All you write is XPIDL and whatever C++ glue you need to 
implement those IDL-declared interfaces on top of your DLL.


> Unfortunately, my head is spinning with not understanding how the XPCOM
> approach would work (what files are generated which would contain the
> actual code, and how does xpcshell know about them?);


See http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/xpcom/sample/ for a bunch of 
samples that may make it all clear.  Ask around in the xpcom newsgroup 
(setting followup-to: header and cross-posting my reply here).

/be

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