Calling an External EXE from javascript

Hi,

Is there a possibility to access an external DLL or Exe or a Batch file atleast,from the javascript.
I want to send the active document path to the EXE from the javascript whenever the user clicks on the menu item created by javascript.
the exe eventually performs a Database operation.

I have the following code , which causes an internal error

function Test()
{
var a = new ActiveXObject("DOCArchiver.Archiver");
var valor = a.test(2);
alert(valor);
}

However this works when , embedded inside HTML

Thanks in anticipation for your assistance; greatly appreciated

Regards
Arun S