RE: [scala] Re: F# code

> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:news@...] On Behalf Of Jimmie Houchin
> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:50 PM
> To: scala@...
> Cc: scala@...
> Subject: [scala] Re: F# code
>
> 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