Explanation APPLICATION OBJECT: (1) An object stored in an application or its documents and managed by the application. (2) An object (of the WOApplication class) that represents a single instance of a WebObjects application. The application object’s main role is to coordinate the handling of HTTP requests, but it can also maintain application-wide state information
More definitions for Mac OS users such as application object in Dictionary A.
- Help Asynchronous Launch:
- Usage A launch operation in which control returns immediately to the calling program, without waiting for the launched application to complete its launch sequence . Compare synchronous launch application object definition.
- Help Accumulating Attribute Group:
- Usage A set of attribute choices in which the user can select multiple items, such as Bold and Italic. Compare mutually exclusive attribute group application object explain.
- Help AES/EBU Interface:
- Usage An alternate name for AES-3 . See also EBU application object what is.
- Help Application Command:
- Usage defined by a scriptable application to provide access to a scriptable feature. An application command must either be included in a tell statement or include the name of the application in its direct application object meaning.
- Help ADPCM:
- Usage Adaptive delta pulse code modulation. A variant of pulse-code modulation , and an extension of DPCM , that varies quantization step size to minimize bit rate for a given dynamic range application object abbreviation.