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Invoking OLE services from within Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Greco)
Fri Sep 29 17:28:52 1995
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 14:54:22 EDT
From: fgreco@lehman.com (Frank Greco)
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
> I am interested in using Java as the "glue" component for coordinating desktop
> applications that interact with desktop applications like Word, Excel, Frame, etc.
> Is there a way I can invoke OLE services from within Java and/or HotJava?
Yes. There is a way to do this from a Java application, but
you would lose portability. You can also link in Unix shared libs
in an *application* but again, you would lose portability.
Don't underestimate the usefulness of portability. Note that Java
can be run on machines other than PeeCees. Even machines other
than Sun and Macs...
> Is there a way I can invoke CDE services under Unix?
Yes. There are ways of communicating with external Unix processes.
But there are certain restrictions on applets (you can communicate
with other processes in a similar fashion to good ole pipes).
> Other things that need to be invocable as part of the application environment
> include services provided by an ORB.
There is a heavyweight solution to this one. SunSoft sells
an IDL interface for Java, as mentioned at the "NEO" (nee DOE)
announement last tuesday. Its fairly expensive though...
Frank G.
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