Activex from java application?

Question

Is it possible to easily embed ActiveX controls in Java application? Is it worth it. In my next project I should either use existing activex in Java app or have to reimplement e

Answer 1

It really depends on how much you are going to have to re-implement. The Jacob project is quite good (we use it extensively for automation of Excel and Word), but you have to really understand COM to use it, especially the vagaries of the IDispatch interface (very few people who use ActiveX / COM actually understand COM - they just rely on Microsoft's template generation).

If you are just trying to save yourself some typing for some simple DAO objects, you'll probably be better off re-implementing (heck, you could probably take the DTD and write a script to generate Java code for it).