ActiveX Control in netbeans

[mwalstra]

Hi there,

I currently have an active X control that i use in my webpages, i would like to know if there are any plugins or something like that available in java that would enable me to utilize the same control but in the netbeans environment.

Thanks in advance.

[Nicholas Jordan]

That's sorta mixing two differing things. You could write one, nobody is to stop you but for one thing, Net Beans is for writing code, ActiveX is a decent implementaion of client-side display tools.....

Kinda like boats and ariplanes, okay neither is wheatfield technology, but you can put floats on a plane and have something.

Difference here is that Net Beans is for writing code, ActiveX is for driving ... displaying ?... it's just two different things.

[mwalstra]

Hi Nicholas,

The ActiveX control i am using in my webpages interacts with a scanner, basically i create an object referencing the CAB file, but i would like to know if this is possible in java.
Or would i have to recompile the ActiveX component to be a "dll" (im not sure of the equivalent in java) and then import that?

(Sorry for my lack of understanding, i'm actually a web developer, but my company would like me to try get a java version working)

[mwalstra]

Hi,

It seems i am not getting any new replies on this:

Basically i currently use the following code on a webpage,
<object width=350 height=350
classid="CLSID:74F4F118-91E6-4AFC-B8D2-04066781F239"
id="eztwain"
name="eztwain"
codebase="$CAB#Version=1,56,0,12"
standby="Loading Fica">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<param name="EnableLogging" value="True">
<param name="AppTitle" value="FWApp">
<param name="LicenseKey" value="1619579093">

I would like to know if i am able to use the same CAB file in JAVA

[xcallmejudasx]

Ya you can create an object reference to the file but I think it might better to actually use the file. Are you pulling data from the file?

I'm still a little unsure of what you want to do with this file but read up on FileInputStream, Runtime.exec()

[Nicholas Jordan]

Stay with him xcallmejudasx, I'm busy right now. A .cab file in java is .... well, dot cab in cs in win proprietary for a compressed file. dot zip is somewhat not as winnie, we have dot war as Web Archive, ( Look into it xcallmejudasx - help him with it ) and as well we have what is called .gzip - the defacto standard for open-standards in file compression routines.

In Java, we use what is called .jar - which is acronm for Java Archive. Though using several compression algorithms, we have a short intro study just examining the various compression schemes used in the differing file format.

Start by google for LZW - both of you work on it awhile while I am busy on some preliminary concepting for a compiler.....

Additional information: interfacing ActiveX and Java