Apparatus, method and architecture for task oriented applications

摘要

A software architecture for task oriented applications. The architecture utilizes a wrapper (14) as an intermediate structure between an external calling application (10) and a wrapped component or module (12). The wrapper is written in a script language and acts as a bridge between the external application (10) and the wrapped component (12). Data is transferred among components through the intermediary of a table of contents (TOC) file which contains data attribute information and a link to the actual data file.