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Is it possible (using one of the server side implementations of javascript .. see http://www.nakedjavascript.com/getting-started-55) to instantiate a COM object and invoke methods on it?

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  • I'm most interested in a v8 solution Commented Feb 22, 2011 at 9:43

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There is node-win32ole (npm install win32ole).

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That depends on which server-side implementation you’re using. When using ASP/JS (or any other framework using Microsoft’s Windows Scripting engine), that’s not a problem using the ActiveXObject constructor.
When using JSDB, you can use the ActiveX constructor.

Node.js doesn’t really work on Windows, only thru Cygwin, so ActiveX probably won’t be supported.

I have no idea how easy or difficult it would be to access COM objects from SpiderMonkey, V8 or SquirrelFish directly. They have C/C++ interfaces — and are open source, so if you know your way in the language, you could probably add it.

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Thanks for the prompt response. I guess I could wrap COM using something like github.com/tsa/vu8 . I have no idea how much work that would be. What interfaces would you need as a minimum? I guess ruby's win32ole.c could be a good place to starthttp://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/win32ole/rdoc/
Also, I don’t know if .Net is an option, but in that case you should check out this question.

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