Miles Sabin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Jimmie Houchin<
jlhouchin@...>
wrote:
>> I am writing an app which requires interfacing with a commercial COM
>> library? I haven't gotten to that part of my Scala education yet.
But since
>> it is mentioned here. How does one from Scala interface and use a
COM dll?
>> I just figured I would possibly or probably have use .NET and an
interop to
>> interface the COM dll. If I could do it directly without .NET, that
would be
>> even better.
>
> You could use a Java-COM bridge. JACOB,
>
>
http://www.danadler.com/jacob/ >
> is one that was mentioned earlier in the thread and there are many
others.
>
> It's a long time time since I looked at that sort of thing, but I
> recall that the APIs were all very ugly and verbose. Is that still the
> case? Would a generic COM wrapper written in Scala look any nicer than
> one written in Java?
Cool, thanks.
I saw the reference to JACOB but don't remember a link. I may have
missed it. Thanks for the link. It looks like it should do exactly what
I want.
I hope to not have to live in this situation for long. I hope to be in a
position to migrate to a completely Java/Scala solution soon.
Thanks.
Jimmie
