Advanced warning: this has nothing to do with cgi or anything web-related.

I am a heavy user of photoshop and other adobe products, and they are beginning a heavy push towards javascript as a customization mechanism for users to do various things like build new UI elements, call lower-level functions within the app, etc. And it's not just adobe apps doing this--I'm finding many other products are also putting javascript engines in the middle of their UI and API layers.

Because I have a far more extensive library of perl apps that I've written (and acquired from cpan) over the years, I would love to somehow make use of them. I'm not familiar with javascript enough to know whether (or how) I can "link" to perl, or have any connection whatsoever to it from inside a javascript engine. Clearly, if Adobe wanted to, they could provide one as part of their particular library of javascript functions, but I doubt they have done such a thing (nothing of the sort is documented).

So, I wonder if there's a way to do it myself, or if anyone has sufficient knowledge or experience with it that could point me in the right direction.

Dan Heller
http://www.danheller.com

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