I figured you already did that :) For others who run across this. You need to register the dll with the regsvr32 command so the system knows you what you are calling . If you run CF under an account other than the Local System (which you should). There may be some permissions issues depending on the permissions you give the account.
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: jonese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 1:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Using a Custom COM Object Got it registered now it work. Thanks michael! jonese On 7/6/07, Dawson, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you registered the object yet? > > -----Original Message----- > From: jonese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 10:29 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Using a Custom COM Object > > Tried that Dave didn't work. gave me the "java.lang.Exception: Invalid > COM object" error. > > An exception occurred when instantiating a Com object. > The cause of this exception was that: > coldfusion.runtime.com.ComObjectInstantiationException: An exception > occurred when instantiating a Com object. > > Thoughts? Do they have to do anything special when creating the object > to get it to work? > > jonese > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:283091 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4

