JBOSS and Windows COM Integration

[vikramrc]

Hello There,
I hope to provide a short background before setting the context for my proposal.

I am the author of j-Interop - Java COM Middleware (http://www.j-interop.org). This library implements the DCOM protocol published by Microsoft in pure Java thus allowing an application to interoperate with Windows COM components from any platform supporting Java. From Windows OS perspective it behaves just like any other Windows COM client would. It is maintained and released under LGPL.

Quite a few of our users are working with JBoss AS and using j-Interop as an artifact (servlet or EJB) of their application. Sometime back one of them pointed us to BEA Weblogic jCOM (http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs92/jcom/index.html) which provides this functionality of COM interoperability as part of the application server itself. They also mentioned that JBoss already has a similar functionlity wrt CORBA (jbossiiop project).

To me this sounded like a good usecase of providing support for seamless access to native Windows COM applications from JBoss AS itself.

I wanted to propose forming a similar component such as jbossiiop for COM access. This component "jbosscom" (if I may take the liberty) would be enabled using j-Interop. I would very much like this to be our contribution to the growing popularity and users of JBoss AS and j-Interop projects respectively.

I would be grateful for any thoughts, ideas or alternatives you have on this proposal.

thanks for your time,
best regards,
Vikram

[starksm64]

Ok, sounds fine. Let me ask Mark if he can setup a project page on jboss.org for it.

[vikramrc]

Hi Scott,
Thank you very much for the quick response and action.

best regards,
Vikram

[jmoliveira]

Hi

Can you use CORBA for this ?

regarads

[vikramrc]

Hi There,
I am not sure if I understand the question correctly. May I know if you meant use CORBA to access Windows COM applications ? or something else . Can you please rephrase the question ?

Thanks,
best regards,
Vikram

[starksm64]

Note that Mark suggested using jbossdcom as the project name to avoid confusion with the jboss.com references on the jboss.org site.

[vikramrc]

Hi Scott,
Good idea. Kindly feel free to name the project as per your convenience and set guidelines (if any).

Thanks,
best regards,
Vikram

[vikramrc]

Hi Scott,
May I know if the project page got set up ?

Thanks for your help,
best regards,
Vikram

[newtonm]

Hi Vikram,

Your project page is now setup and can be found here: http://www.jboss.org/jdcom/

We've also created the following services for you:

JIRA project - https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JDCOM
User forum - http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewforum&f=296
Developer forum - http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewforum&f=297
Subversion Repository - https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jdcom/
Mailing lists - http://lists.jboss.org

Please feel free to also create articles in the JBoss.org wiki: http://www.jboss.org/community/community/wiki

thanks,

Mark Newton
JBoss.org Lead

[vikramrc]

Dear Mark,
I appreciate very much your responsiveness and efficiency in setting up everything.

thank again for your help and take care,
best regards,
Vikram