How to connect with other applications

Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
I wonder if there is a best practice to connect with applications. So far
many people used webservices such as REST or XMLRPC to connect with webapps.
But I am wondering if there is a way to connect to third parties desktop
applications. I know that the guys on the forum have been able to do this on
windows with COM. However I think this is not a cross platform option.
Firefox or more specifically thunderbird uses XPCOM to provide information
between applications. My question is how does a smaller generic application
connect with OOo without needing to open a socket like the uno dev example
shows on the DevGuide?

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