Greg Thanks for the quick reaction I will try it this way and see if it works fine Is it also possible through this to do a file transfer bu your knowledge (When they selected a file to be transfered over a Visual Basic program) I know normally i would not do this, but some people where asking this in specific. Can you also send me a piece of your code as a reference
Thank you very much Martin Kuypers ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 4:34 PM Subject: RE: How to connect a COM environment to struts ? > So VB is your front end and you want it to connect to business logic in > Struts, right? > > We've used a browser control with some success to do this sort of thing. > I think it ships with VB in the "Microsoft Internet Controls" package, > but I'm not real sure. The variable is of type "SHDocVwCtl.WebBrowser". > Just place it on a VB form and you can use it to communicate with a web > server via HTTP. The browser control has three events that our code > catches: CommandStateChange, DocumentComplete, and BeforeNavigate2. It > has a lot of other events and methods on it. You'd have to read the doc > b/c I'm not really sure what they are for. > > At any rate, the way we're using it is to create the url, create the > HTTP Post request, create the headers and pass it into the control like > this: > > Dim Browser As WebBrowser > Dim Url As String > Dim PostData() As Byte > Dim Headers As String > > Url = http://localhost/someapp/someaction.do > > PostData = "param1=value¶m2=value..." > > ' not really sure what this line is for... > PostData = StrConv(PostData, vbFromUnicode) > > Headers = "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" & vbCrLf > > Call Browser.Navigate(Url, 0, "", PostData, Headers) > > After this you have two choices. The browser control can either display > the HTML output or you can display the output in VB forms. > > To accomplish the latter, you would have to make the browser control > invisible, and your JSP's would have to be written to produce XML > instead of HTML. When the browser control returns from the web server, > you have access to the DOM by getting a reference to Browser.Document > (this is of type HtmlDocument). So from that you can traverse the > response XML to get data to populate your VB form. Of course you can > use Struts logic and bean tags to populate the XML in the JSP. > > There may be other (better) ways of doing this, but that's how we > achieved a similar effect. > > HTH, > Greg > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Martin Kuypers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 2:39 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: How to connect a COM environment to struts ? > > > > > > Does anyone have an example how a visual basic program can > > connect to a > > struts environment, because i have all the Bussines Logic in > > a Struts MVC > > model and would not like to change it > > So if anyone has an example about a visual basic program > > connecting to this > > world, then this would mean a big Help for me > > > > Thanks > > > > Martin > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
