Interoperability issues made integration of Microsoft® Component Object Model (COM) and Java™ components a challenging task. JAVAin™ Development Tool for Java-COM Bridge, simplifies the job of integrating COM and Java Components and provides an evolutionary approach to migrating applications from COM to the Java platform and vice versa.

Overview

The extremely competitive global business environment drives the need for business agility, rapid decision making and business process flexibility. This requires IT organizations to be highly accommodating of new business process requirements, which translates to seamless operability of existing and new applications. CRM to ERP integration solution or SCM to Finance are only two very common examples.

Java technology and Microsoft® Component Object Model (COM) technology have both playing the major roles in the development of large-scale applications on Windows platforms. Yet, interoperability between those two technologies remains a tremendous challenge task in the integration world. While Microsoft COM is the most powerful technology of Windows OS and therefore most of Microsoft’s products are based on COM (including the .NET technology), the Java platform is widely used for building integration solutions. The products for doing the job of integrating COM and Java Components are known as Java-COM Bridge.

A few feasible products have emerged in recent years targeting this market of enable interactions between Java components and COM components, most of them are unqualified because of huge overhead in memory, and/or large time delays in COM method calls and/or because of their high prices, but the main imperfection of these products is the fact that they violate java programming style. When implementing these products of Java-COM bridges, for writing java code the Java programmers should know specifics of COM technology.