That's how a lot of Windows stuff and MS Office stuff is built - as (D)COM components you can arbitrarily connect to from anything that can speak COM. It's als

That's how a lot of Windows stuff and MS Office stuff is built - as (D)COM components you can arbitrarily connect to from anything that can speak COM. It's also how Windows Scripting Host operates (it also makes the language interpreters into COM objects, so you can extend the list of available languages yourself)