Working with jCOM Tools

Beyond some initial configuration done on WebLogic Server, most of the actual work you'll do will involve the jCOM-provided tool programs. These programs lie at the heart of jCOM and are used to generate and deploy all the elements you'll need to expose individual objects between platforms.

We'll go over four programs (some come with both a GUI and command-line version) in detail.

  • com2java

  • java2cOM

  • regjvm

  • regtlb

NOTE

The examples section of this chapter contains working examples of each of these tools.

Connecting to COM with com2java

This tool is used to generate the individual Java proxy code modules that you'll need to access COM components. Think of it as making “COM available 2 Java”; that is, making COM components available ...

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