November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
936 pages
68h 43m
English
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Name
JSObject.call( ) — invoke a method of a JavaScript object
Availability
Netscape 3, Internet Explorer 4
Synopsis
public Object call(StringmethodName, Objectargs[])
Arguments
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methodName The name of the JavaScript method to be invoked.
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args[] An array of Java objects to be passed as arguments to the method.
Returns
A Java object that represents the return value of the JavaScript method.
Description
The call( ) method of the Java JSObject class
invokes a named method of the JavaScript object represented by the
JSObject. Arguments are passed to the method as an array of Java
objects, and the return value of the JavaScript method is returned as
a Java object.
Chapter 22 describes the data conversion of the method arguments from Java objects to JavaScript values and the method return value from a JavaScript value to a Java object.