Visual Basic Client accessing EJB

[Lancy Mendonca]

All,
Can someone pls point me to resources showing how to access EJB using COM clients like Visual Basic. I use Sybase EA server
Many Thanks in advance

[Raul Regis]

Hope this might help you. The article at this link should give you an idea.
http://www.asptoday.com/content/articles/20000804.asp

[Lancy Mendonca]

Hi Raul
Thanks for the reply. The site mentioned in your reply is a paid site. Are there any free rseources available. They may not be whole source codes. Just pointers would be very helpful

[Praveen Bethi]

Hi Lancy
I have exactly the same problem on hand now. I am also trying to find a solution to access EJBs from a VB client. EJBs are hosted on a BEA Weblogic server. I hope u might have found a solution for this. I would greatly appreciate if u could pass on any details on this like how to do it and any resources on the web.
Thanks

Originally posted by Lancy Mendonca:
Hi Raul
Thanks for the reply. The site mentioned in your reply is a paid site. Are there any free rseources available. They may not be whole source codes. Just pointers would be very helpful

[Mike Curwen]

There exists and EJB-COM bridge component. It is an 'early access' technology, and so you *do* have to obtain a Sun Developer Connection username/password.

I can tell you though, I've had one for about 4 months and haven't received any spam, and it is free... so you should not have too much problems there.

This is a description from their site:

The J2EE CAS COM Bridge provides a set of COM objects that let any COM-enabled
client application establish a connection to an application server and obtain references
to EJB components. The bridge will then transparently map remote objects (accessed 
by means of the RMI-IIOP protocol) to COM objects that the client can readily access
using the COM IDispatch interface. 

I know you VB programmers won't know what IDispatch is, but oh well... it gets you closer.
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/j2eecas/download-com-bridge.html

[This message has been edited by Mike Curwen (edited July 27, 2001).]