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Calling a VB Com component from Java

michaelbyrd

2006-01-25, 12:37 am

Hi,

I wish to call some legacy VB 6 COM dlls from some new Java code I am writing. I was looking (just read quickly haven't tried the examples yet) at the ActiveX Bridge documentation and get the impression that it only goes one way -i.e. make Java into an ActiveX Component to be used from VB, whereas I wish to call VB from Java.

Have I missed something or is this not the way to go to get to the legacy code?

The legacy code also has an MIDL file. Ideally, I would love to just be able to access that from Java, but I can't find any (non-Microsoft VJ++ based) tools to help with either converting MIDL to IDL so I can use Sun's idlj.exe or just converting the MIDL to Java.

Any pointers/tips on any of this would be appreciated.

Thanks,

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