Directory of XPCOM Resources

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XPCOM, a lightweight cross platform COM work-alike, is the foundation for modularity in Mozilla, but it can also be used stand-alone.

Resources in This Category

• Evaluation of Interprocess Communication Methods in a Component-based Environment

  http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gargamel/exjobb/
  This thesis evaluates several of the available techniques for interprocess communications (IPC) in a prototype system for distributed components using XPCOM as the basis. It also takes into consideration marshalling, the transfer of complex data structures, it further discusses security, robustness and correctness.

• Getting Started with PyXPCOM, Part 2

  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-pyxp2.html
  Explains how to access Mozilla objects as a client.

• JavaScript Component Wizard

  http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/jscomponentwiz/
  Generates an XPCOM skeleton.

• MozillaZine Knowledge Base - Implementing XPCOM in JavaScript

  http://kb.mozillazine.org/Implementing_XPCOM_components_in_JavaScript
  Provides information about creating a JavaScript XPCOM class.

• MySQL XPCOM

  http://mysqlxpcom.mozdev.org/
  An XPCOM/XPConnect implementation of mysqlclient API 3.x. The goal of the project is to provide solid and full mysqlclient interface for JavaScript applications. [Open Source, LGPL]

• Mytools360.com

  http://www.mytools360.com/
  Creates XPCOM as ATL COM in Microsoft Vistual Studio 2005.

• plXPCOM

  http://plxpcom.mozdev.org/
  Perl language bindings. Allows the use of XPCOM objects from Perl, as well as the ability to implement XPCOM interfaces in Perl. (Jumpline.com, Inc.)

• rbXPCOM

  http://rbxpcom.mozdev.org/
  Ruby language bindings. Ruby is an object oriented scripting language developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto.

• Xanthes

  http://xanthes.mozdev.org/
  XPCOM wrapper around the Xerces validating xml parser. [Open Source, MPL, GPL]

• XPCOM

  https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPCOM
  Mozilla's cross-platform component object model.

 

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