Adobe Scripting

This ability supported by Adobe to it's products or applications to automate and facilitate your work throw it's application .Assume the routine used to convert 100 pictures from *.jpg to *.bmp extension !!!! Why you should done it manually by hands which may take about 3 hours while you can do it automaticly by writing a simple script that do it in less than minute !!

As Marco in Microsoft Office Similar to Scripting in Adobe ( for automation purpose ) .

Scripting is a series of statements or codes that tells an application (of Adobe ) to execute task depends on it.
Adobe supports scripting or coding throw one of three languages that it supports .

In Mac system there are two scripts :
# JavaScript
# MacScript

In Windows system there are also two scripts :
# JavaScript
# MacScript

The "Adobe ExtendScript toolkit 2" is like IDE for scripting which offers all standard JavaScript features, plus a development and debugging environment, the ExtendScript Toolkit (ESTK) is installed with all scriptable Adobe applications like (Adobe illustrator and photoshop).

For more information and documentations visit this officially link :
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/bridge/