Hi Martin,

I know how it feels to inherit projects and I too have decried (quite publicly) 
the original programmers decision on some of the strategy for those projects. 

So without knowing your development environment and deployment requirement, can 
I suggest that you just switch to the 32-bit version of J? 
PROS:
1. You'll get a stable library
2. Its thoroughly tested 
3. Officially supported
4. It works.
CONS:
1. Nagging feeling of dissatisfaction that your using 32bit in a 64bit build
2. Can't allocate more than 1GB for each object (but why do you need to?)

I been using J since version 4 and been deploying softwares that rely on J 
since version 5. There are some features that I feel is lacking but its a 
stable environment and one of my projects, an MRP for adidas apparel, is still 
being used this day although I've deployed it in 2003 and using J504. 

For the #2 CONS, I have worked around this "limitation" by partitioning my 
projects and a lot of forethought. Because of this, I have a capacity planning 
module done in J that runs on a Pentium !V 2.0Ghz with 512mb memory, the 
standard configuration of PC's on factory floors. The same principle hold even 
if my J scripts run on a big-iron compaq-hp server with 4-xeon cpu's and 6gb 
ram. J computes faster with smaller data to inputs ... data partitioning is 
key. 

r/Alex



On Oct 14, 2010, at 9:02 PM, Martin Pelletier wrote:

>  This is really what I meant, J COM documentation. Incidentally, I 
> found some old general COM book at work, so if it comes to that, I can 
> explore that as well.
> 
> I really like that I can use JEXEServer in debug mode, and JDLLServer in 
> release. If they really do behave the same way, that will be great.
> 
> I also found this terrible sentence: "J64 servers have not been tested 
> and are not officially supported."
> 
> I really wish my predecessors had seen this before developing with J64...
> 
> I see that there is probably no chance of a fix with J6 now that J7 is 
> on its way. I don't know what I'm going to do with this.
> 
> Thanks for all your help.
> 
> Martin Pelletier
> 
> On 2010-10-13 19:10, Alexander Rufon wrote:
>> 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
>> 
> 
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