gcj to assist in porting java applet to activex control?

Wed Oct 24 09:43:00 GMT 2001

Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com> writes:
> The Mingw project has some runtime support for COM.

Sweet. I'm willing to fight with it a bit.
> > Also, do you know where I can find info on exactly what the
> > relationship between ActiveX and COM is, and what makes an ordinary
> > DLL magically become a "COM" DLL? Microsoft's website is immensely
> > unhelpful...

> No idea about ActiveX. For the low-level details of what makes a DLL into
> an in-process COM component, I liked the book "Inside Distributed COM"
> from Microsoft Press.

Nice. AFAIK, an "ActiveX" component is simply a COM DLL which supports
a certain predefined set of methods (similar in scope to the Netscape
Plugin API), and happens to be wrapped up in a signed .CAB file.
Still, if anybody on the list has pointers to more info on ActiveX,
let me know. I think it'll be incredibly cool if I can pull off both a
Java Applet and an ActiveX control from a 95% shared codebase... =)
 - a