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Date:      Wed, 3 Jul 2002 11:11:10 +0100
From:      Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anything like COM in Java?
Message-ID:  <20020703111110.A72576@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020628220442.GB49867@grimoire.chen.org.nz>; from jonc@chen.org.nz on Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 10:04:42AM %2B1200
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| > contract interactions.  How can I do this in Java?  Do Interfaces work
| > well enough for this?  Is there a Java binary equivalent, so the binding
| > takes place at run-time rather than compile-time?
| 
| Would a network classloader do what you want? There'd be still quite a
| bit of work to do to handle the interaction.

On looking at things more closely, COM is not dynamic run-time binding.
Since you still have to begin with a type library, the interfaces are
all defined ahead of time, just like Java.  So, it looks like the best
way to do this is with Java interfaces, just like I'd planned.

jm
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My other computer is your windows box.

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