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How can I use Java to use the functionality of existing VisualBasic Applications

Posted by Matt Gerrans on October 17, 2001 at 4:08 PM

Could you be more specific? For instance, one simple thing you could do is have your vb app put some stuff on the clipboard that the java app could read. This wouldn't be too difficult. Or you could have your vb app write to a file that the java app reads, which is also pretty simple.

However, if you are talking about the java app calling functions you wrote in vb, it is probably less work (and more platform independent) to rewrite some of your code in java. You can make DLLs with VB that could be called via Java native methods, but you will probably waste a lot of time (and nerves) trying to get it all working.

- mfg

> How can I use Java to use the functionality of existing VisualBasic Applications.