For your information, Java developers journal (OCT 1999, issue) has in-depth example in writing JAVA-COM object.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 11:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Converting ActiveX objects into Beans
Hi Mike:
Since neither Servlets nor JSP require any Java 1.2 support (in fact, every
IBM site I know of uses JDK 1.1.7 or 1.1.8) you may be able to use the
Microsoft Java VM to run your servlet engine.
If you can do this, wrapping ActiveX in Java is a piece of cake with the
latest MS SDK for Java (or Visual J++ 6.0). The MS JVM automatically creates
java callable wrappers for any COM object. They have a utility called
JActiveX that creates the beans for you. So you end up with standard Java
Beans that can be called from any Servlet and/or JSP.
I have a vague recollection of someone else posting that they were using the
MS JVM for their servlet engine - I think JRUN will work with it, but can
not say for sure.
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: Ward Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 6:06 PM
Subject: Converting ActiveX objects into Beans
> I've just been handed a bunch of ASP code along with some ActiveX objects.
> Since our company has a long standing policy of NO MS outside the firewall
I am faced with a dilema.
>
> The general consensus here is that we should re-write these ASP pages into
JSP. I don't think that will be too hard. The hard part is this:
>
> How do I convert the ActiveX objects (written originally in C++) into Java
Beans short of completely re-writing the code in Java.
>
> The problem is that this particular ActiveX object is used to generate a
very specific key that unlocks some software we are hoping to ship soon.
The number that it generates needs to be exactly the right number or the
software won't unlock. I'm worried that if I re-write this stuff in Java it
may not generate the same number.
>
> I haven't dug too deep into the process that the ActiveX Object uses to
generate the number and I'm hoping I won't have to.
>
> Is there anyway to "wrap" the ActiveX object somehow so I can serve it up
like a bean?
> Or is there any sort of automated converter that would change it for me?
>
> Please help with ideas. I'm afraid I'm going to have to re-write this
stuff in Java which wouldn't be too hard except that means I have to try
understand the ActiveX object and all of its accompanying .h files and .cpp
files and on and on.
>
> Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> -- Mike Ward
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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