Accessing a component from an external program

[Antoine Julien]

Is it possible to access a Mozilla component from an external application?

Let's say I would like to have an application that interacts with 
Mozilla.  I would then create a component that would do the Mozilla 
related stuff, and another application (C++) that could communicate with 
the component to do its stuff.  Is such a communication between 
applications possible with XPCOM?  I know it is with COM so I was wondering.

I suspect I would need to retrieve my reference to the component with 
the nsIServiceManager::getServiceByContractID method, but then I'd need 
to have access to the nsIServiceManager (or nsIComponentManager for 
Instances instead of Services).  So the whole question becomes 
basically: can one access the service/componenet manager from outside 
Mozilla?
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