For a free Active X/Java class bridge look at the web site below:

http://danadler.com/jacob/

Cheers,
Nick Tucker





                                                                                                                                    
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I'm an accomplished Visual Basic programmer who has perfected a large body
of class modules that perform specialized tasks.  I would like to give my
Java apps access to these routines stored as DLL files.  I posed this
question to my Java instructor, and he replied thusly:

    I can think of two possible solutions. One is to wrap
    the .dll file into an  executable so that Java can run
    it and get some kind of true/false result back. I know
    from Java you can call another executable file, but I
    don't remember the syntax. The other solution is get
    some kind of ActiveX/Java Class bridge component which
    is provided by some third party vendors.

Do any of you have any insights into either of these proposals (or have
another idea)?  [My instructor mentioned but nixed a third possibility,
using Microsoft Visual J++ to call other Windows components.  We both
consider that strategy sullied.]

Peter Ferber