We have the immediate need to provide access to an LDAP server (over SSL). For that we are supposed to write an appropriate COM object.... which I am sure is very doable but given our skill set it will take a little bit too long. So we considered writing the logic in Java and to somehow wrap it up and register it as a COM component. We found a few websites describing something like this (Suns ActiveX Packager For Beans; Microsofts JavaReg, which doesn't seem to exist on their web site anymore).
I was wondering if anybody of you has some experiences with such a solution and can tell us about possible problems.
Right now we are looking into the following options:
1) bite the bullet and write the component in whatever 'Microsoft based' language we can (we don't have any tools for that and we don't know yet how to do that -> takes long)
2) try to find a third party component for LDAP access and costumize it (no idea if this is doable; I read about a component but it didn't allow SSL connections)
3) write a JavaBean and use Sun's ActiveX Packager For Beans to deploy it (we don't know about any possible problems with that solution; how do we make all the necessary java libs accessible? Does it matter that we have to use a specific, very old Miccrosoft JVM?)
4) write the Java logic and use JavaReg to deploy it (I can't find JavaReg anywhere; + all the problems above in the ActiveX Packager item)
5) write a tiny server application in Java that just listens on a port for requests, handles the LDAP lookup and responds with an appropriate document fragment; then we just (still) have to write a COM component that does the request to this port and handles the reply
Does anybody have better ideas, experiences, answers to any of the questions? Comments (especially about the options 3 and 4) are VERY welcome!
Thank you in advance
Jan Schroeder
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