Is there an InDesign JavaScript Reference?

As a long time Photoshop scripter, I use the Photoshop JavaScript Reference often. It is a full reference to the Photoshop DOM.
I now need to create some scripts for InDesign and can't find a DOM reference on the Adobe dev site. Does one exists? Or what resources would you recommend to someone who knows ExtendScript but need to learn the InDesign DOM?
Thanks,
Mike

Hey thanks Kasyan!
For all intents and purposes, it contains exactly the same information as shown in the ESTK Help menu -- if I did my job well, that is. It's just presented in a friendlier format, and has lots of extra hyperlinks. And it's CS3/CS4 purple!
The HTML version is adequate, but the CHM version really shiness -- at least, when viewed with a good HTML Help viewer. Fairly recent Windows viewers allow both indexing and a full text search, which makes life for the occasional scripter far easier.
I am very impressed with Robin Lu's Mac OS X viewer iCHM. It's as good as Microsoft's, apart from one tiny error; it doesn't properly shows all UTF8 encoded characters (fortunately, there aren't that many of these in the help text, so therefore it's just a mild nuisance). A must-have for all Mac users.
A good resource for starters are Adobe's own guides at http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/ (click the Scripting Resources button)
The Scripting Guide PDF , for example, contains lots of useful snippets for common tasks.

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