Dealing with the Data Types
After jCOM is configured and up and running, you'll find that the only real day-to-day programming task you'll encounter is in dealing with the data types that you send and receive from the server objects you've exposed. From a Java or COM client perspective, you'll need to reconcile between individual idiosyncrasies in the primitive data type mappings that jCOM provides.
Overall, jCOM should be given credit for providing a workable solution to a difficult problem and doing a very good job of mapping primitive and complex data types across platforms into a form familiar to programmers on either side. But as with all integration efforts, you shouldn't expect perfection. For example, a COM VariantEnumeration type is ...
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