J2EE CAS COM Bridge

The J2EE CAS COM Bridge from Sun™ allows a Microsoft™ application written in C++, Visual Basic, ASP and more to use Java class as they were COM objects. You can access any kind of Java classes, even EJB. Sun™ provides connectivity services for 5 J2EE Application Server, but infortunately JBoss is not in the list. Here is one solution.

Software used :

• Windows 2000 Server
• Sun JDK 1.3.1
• J2EE CAS COM Bridge Early Access 4
• JBoss 2.4.4/Tomcat 4.0.1
• Visual Studio 6.0 SP5

JBoss Connectivity Service

• The Easy Way to get it

• The Hard Way to get it

  • Source files

  • Compilation

Where to go now ?

• Using EJB

  • Deployement

  • Test with a Web client

• Jboss with Visual Basic

  • TypeLib Generation

  • Let's go with VB

  • It works !!!

Resources

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