HI Bill,

Thanks for the heads-up on wdooo ... I missed that. Will look into it ... might 
be a viable alternative.

r/Alex


On Oct 14, 2010, at 8:48 AM, bill lam wrote:

> It is unfortunate that the j.dll in J7 still provides JDLLServer, otherwise
> it provides an excuse to implement an open source version of J COM server
> similar to the wdooo addons that replacing the wd's oleautomation.
> 
> Чтв, 14 Окт 2010, Alexander Rufon писал(а):
>> If you mean the J COM documentation, that can be found here:
>> http://jsoftware.com/help/user/oleocx.htm
>> 
>> If you need source code examples, I started out by looking into this 
>> directory
>> /Applications/j602/system/examples/ole
>> 
>> You should pay particular attention to the contents of the file:
>> /Applications/j602/system/examples/ole/cpp/p_jcl/jsvr.cpp
>> /Applications/j602/system/examples/ole/vb/jole.bas
>> 
>> But if your looking for general COM documentation, I would suggest looking 
>> at second hand bookstores (was able to buy 2 books on COM a few years back). 
>> MS seems to want to kill this tech with .NET and .NET Remoting since its 
>> really prone to DLL HELL (try installing J 64 and 32 versions in the same 
>> machine ... much hair pulling ensues :P).
>> 
>> Actually ... we may be in for some rough time after J7 since I believe 
>> COM/OLE is tied with J's WD features. I believe J7 would not support the old 
>> interfaces directly with the advent of the new JFE's (GTK & JHS). The rumor 
>> is that J.EXE would stay at version 6 and only J.DLL would be 
>> replaced/upgraded. I'm a bit concerned because the UTF8 support for SetB() 
>> and GetB() functions are still broken ... and my clients are mostly in China 
>> and South-East Asia. I do have work-arounds like creating an external 
>> dictionary for non-latin characters and replacing them with GUID then 
>> reverting it back after J is finished with the data. Its clunky and time 
>> consuming. So I'm waiting for the release and hoping that the code re-work 
>> is not as bad as I fear. 
>> 
>> Still, some kind-hearted soul may come up with a library to convert J memory 
>> structure to .NET variant/object format. Actually, somebody did start on 
>> this, just look at this tutorial (what you should look for is the conversion 
>> of J 3!:1 format to C data): 
>> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Interfaces/JTask
>> 
>> Ok, didn't notice I've been ranting ... my excuse is its early in the 
>> morning and haven't had breakfast yet and still haven't decided if I would 
>> want to go through my kihon and kata routines. :P
>> 
>> On Oct 13, 2010, at 11:45 PM, Martin Pelletier wrote:
>> 
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