3. A data processing system for integrating a Web application with dialogue-based script input, the system comprising: a computer with at least one processor and memory; a Web server; a script execution thread supporting at least one dialogue based script; and, a common script interface executing in the computer and disposed between the Web server and the script execution thread, the common script interface comprising program code enabled during execution in the computer to issue a command to start the script execution thread, receive publication of a status of the executing script and provide the published status to the Web server when the Web server polls the common script interface for the status of the executing script; and receive a script input request from an executing dialogue based script in a Web page and also receiving a subscription to the script input request from the Web server; the subscription by the Web server causing the Web server to perform formatting of the script input request from the executing dialogue based script into a Web form for the Web page by mapping the script input request to fields in the Web form, and providing the Web page to a content browser; the common script interface thereafter providing an intermediary for processing script input from the Web page in the Web server by: receiving form input in the Web form in the Web page from the content browser via the Web server without regard to a format expected by the executing script; transforming the form input into script input in the format expected by the executing dialogue based script; providing the script input to the executing dialogue based script; setting an autopage update feature of the Web page; serving the Web page to the content browser; and, responsive to receiving an autopage update from the Web page subsequent to receiving the script input request from the executing script, formatting the script input request into the Web form for the Web page, disabling the autopage update feature of the Web page, and reserving the Web page to the content browser.
5. The system of claim 3 , wherein the common script interface is further configured to: further receive script status information from the executing script; and, provide the script status information in a portion of a polling Web page.