A Final Word

In one of our most advanced columns thus far, we discussed the implementation of OLE Automation in JScript (Microsoft's version of JavaScript). By now you should be familiar with general Automation concepts, as well as JScript's ActiveXObject() and GetObject() functions, which enable you to instantiate Automation objects. In this column we discussed:

• What OLE Automation means
• What binding means
• How to create a new instance of an Automation object
• How to retrieve an existing instance of an Automation object
• How to work with application instances
• How to improve the performance of your scripts
• How to work with collection objects