ComfyJ 2.4

ComfyJ is a bi-directional Java-COM bridge enabling COM-to-Java and Java-to-COM interaction. It allows you to integrate Java applications with any COM/OLE/OCX/ActiveX libraries and expose Java objects as COM objects - all in pure Java language, without writing native code.
Main features:
Java-to-COM Bridge
- Wrappers for all standard COM interfaces, such as IUnknown, IDispatch etc.
- Support for standard COM types, such as Variant, SafeArray (single and multidimensional arrays), BStr etc.
- Support for VTBL method calling mechanism. You can invoke COM object methods using the function index.
- Automation support enabling you to:
- Invoke any method of a COM object using dynamic method invocation technique.
- Get any property of a COM object, including indexed and named ones.
- Set COM object properties.
- Support for COM events. You can create a Java COM event handler and connect it to a COM object using a standard (findConnectionPoint/advise) COM technique.
- Embedding any OLE/OCX/ActiveX controls into a Swing application. ComfyJ provides a special OleContainer class allowing you to:
- Create an embedded object using ProgID, CLSID, or from a file. Also, there is an ability to insert an IOleObject into the container.
- Embed various OLE/OCX/ActiveX components, such as Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Acrobat Reader documents, and various media components such as Windows MediaPlayer, DVD player, QuickTime, ShockwaveFlash etc.
- Perform static drawing of an embedded component.
- Save/Load an embedded OleObject to/from a file in a special binary format;
- Do various kinds of in-place activation, such as SHOW, INPLACEACTIVE etc.
- DCOM support. ComfyJ allows creating COM object on a remote server.
- Code Generation application. Using this application, you can generate Java COM wrappers for custom COM objects. Generated classes can be compiled and packed to a JAR file if necessary.
COM-to-Java Bridge
- IUnknownServer — Server implementation of the IUnknown COM interface.
- All custom Java COM objects that implement the IUnknown COM interface can be derived from this class.
- IDispatchServer — Server implementation of the IDispatch COM interface.
- All custom Java COM objects that implement the IDispatch COM interface can be derived from this class.
- Ability to create and register custom Java COM classes at run time.
- This technique is widely used in the implementation of the OleContainer interface and in COM events support.
- Ability to create any custom COM classes and register them as COM servers in the system registry using a specially designed "Server Manager" application.