This paper discusses an approach to scripting in open hypermedia systems. The approach is based on an embedded interpreter that enables scripts to communicate with the hypermedia engine as well as external applications in an open way. The design and implementation of the scripting facilities in the Webvise open hypermedia system exemplify this approach. In Webvise, scripting is closely connecte...

The Open Scripting Architecture combines aspects of object-oriented programming, distributed computation, database queries, and dynamic languages into a powerful and practical system for automation, integration, and customization of applications and system services. Applications are integrated together with distributed messaging. The messages operate upon user-level application objects, like wi...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 12011 on the “Foundations for Scripting Languages”. The choice of “for” rather than “of” is intentional: it is our thesis that scripting languages are in need of foundations to support their extensive use but lack them, and we hope this event consolidated and advanced the state of the art in this direction. Seminar 02.–06. J...

Any file is fundamentally a binary data stream. A practical solution was achieved to interpret binary data stream. A new scripting language named Data Format Scripting Language (DFSL) was developed to describe the physical layout of the data in a structural, more intelligible way. On the basis of the solution, a generic software application was implemented; it parses various binary data streams...

Programs written in statically-typed languages are commonly extended with scripting engines that manipulate objects in the compiled layer. These scripting environments extend the capabilities of the program, at the cost of additional errors that would be caught by compile-time type checking. This paper describes a system for using type information from the compiled, statically-typed layer to pe...

This paper discusses how a CASE-tool supporting the Unified Modeling Language (UML) can be customized and extended using a visual scripting mechanism. We briefly introduce a set of UML model operations that can be used to transform a UML diagram of one type to another, and to perform set-theoretical operations on them. We discuss a visual scripting mechanism that can be used to combine these op...

Web application (WA) expands its usages to provide more and more services and it has become one of the most essential communication channels between service providers and the users. To augment the users’ experience many web applications are using client side scripting languages such as JavaScript but this growing of JavaScript is increasing serious security vulnerabilities in web application to...

Scripting is a powerful way to automate the execution of tasks. While shell or batch is widely used for scripting, it remains difficult to use for both starters and experts because of the incomprehensible and incompatible syntaxes. We introduce Natural Shell, an assistant for enabling end-users to generate scripts for various purposes. Natural Shell automatically synthesizes scripts for differe...

In action game programming, programmers have to control multiple concurrent activities on the screen corresponding to multiple game characters. To address this difficulty, many game-oriented scripting languages have been proposed so far. However, current scripting languages seem to lack support for interactions among multiple concurrent activities in a state-dependent manner. To overcome this p...

Scripting languages are designed for glueing software components together. Such languages provide features like dynamic extensibility and dynamic typing with automatic conversion that make them well suited for rapid application development. Although these features entail runtime penalties, modern CPUs are fast enough to execute even large applications in scripting languages eeciently. Large app...