SocketTools Scripting Edition consists of Component
Object Model (COM) libraries designed primarily for
use in scripting languages such as VBScript,
JavaScript and PHP. While the interface to the
Scripting Edition components is similar to the
ActiveX controls in the Visual Edition, the internal
design has significant differences. The Scripting
Edition components do not have the inherent overhead
of ActiveX controls and they implement a threading
model that makes them much more efficient to use with
Active Server Pages (ASP) and similar environments.
Unlike other software development toolkits which may
use complicated data structures or require a complex
interdependency between objects, the SocketTools
interface is designed to be simple to understand and
use. For example, there are no language specific
constructs like C unions in our Library Edition API.
By focusing on providing a clean interface that only
requires intrinsic data types and simple structures,
SocketTools can be used in a wide variety of
programming languages beyond just C and C++.
Likewise, our Visual and Scripting Edition components
implement a straight-forward interface that is
designed to be compatible with virtually any language
that can use COM objects.

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