I think I've seen some articles about it, but not lately. After all, COM's old hat, now we have .NET
- which is the main reason I'm cool on Microsoft these days - they're too good at producing "fad" systems and they don't support them forever the way IBM does.
The "simple" way to invoke COM services is to write a JNI glue class, and java.sun.com (and other sites/books) document that fairly well. I noticed that an ad popped up on my google query for
http://www.capeclear.com offering COM support, but I know nothing about them.
Try firing up the search engine again and looking for articles on calling Excel from
Java - I think that there was a good one there.
[This message has been edited by Tim Holloway (edited November 27, 2001).]
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
