Meta Scripts

Exec Meta Script

• Allows a user to invoke operations on any object from a Web browser

• Takes a script as parameter and executes it

Interface Meta Script

• Generates an HTML document representing object IDL interface

• Takes an object reference as parameter
  • Accesses the Interface Repository to retrieve all operations and attributes of the object interface
  • Automatically generates forms for each operation or attribute
    When an operation takes parameters, it generates HTML input text fields

• The action of each form refers to the Exec meta script