Plugin architecture survey

Survey Of Client Plugins As Potential Models

• Old Netscape Plugin

Wiki Link [1]

• New Mozilla Extensions

XUL Framework, challenging to build. Wiki Link [2]

• Browser Helper Object in IE

Wiki Link [3]

• Eclipse Plug In Model

Java callbacks and contracts. [4]

== Others ==

• XChat / Python [5]

• CGI

• Client-server models

== Languages designed as plugins ==

• Applescript

• Tcl/Tk [6]

• Lua