It's not neccessary that a Visual Basic DLL is going to be a COM object. If the Visual basic DLL is a COM object, then you can use JACOB or other Java-COM bridges to call the DLL. If it's not, then you will have to develop your own C++ JNI layer that will wrap the Visual basic DLL and export the functions to Java
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.