Java calling C# or VBA (MS Office API) ?
 

Hi,

I am writing a Java application which among many other things
has to call some MS Office [PowerPoint] internal methods,
which only seems to be possible from either VBA or C#.

Can anybody suggest a way of Java calling VBA or C# ?

I do know how to call an executable from Java
or Java interface with C/C++ through JNI.


Thank you in advance,
Oleg.

P.S.: If you know how to call PowerPoint from Java or VC++,
please speak out too.

Re: Java calling C# or VBA (MS Office API) ?
 

Oleg Konovalov wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am writing a Java application which among many other things
> has to call some MS Office [PowerPoint] internal methods,
> which only seems to be possible from either VBA or C#.
>
> Can anybody suggest a way of Java calling VBA or C# ?
>
> I do know how to call an executable from Java
> or Java interface with C/C++ through JNI.
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Oleg.
>
> P.S.: If you know how to call PowerPoint from Java or VC++,
> please speak out too.
>
>

I'm not an expert, but I think that CORBA is usefull for such things.
That's what told my CORBA teacher...
Good luck !

Xav

Re: Java calling C# or VBA (MS Office API) ?
 

"Oleg Konovalov" <okonovalov@sarnoff.com> wrote in message
news:c9lia9$lno2@news.sarnoff.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am writing a Java application which among many other things
> has to call some MS Office [PowerPoint] internal methods,
> which only seems to be possible from either VBA or C#.
>
> Can anybody suggest a way of Java calling VBA or C# ?
>
> I do know how to call an executable from Java
> or Java interface with C/C++ through JNI.
>

If the 'vba', 'c#', 'c' or 'c++' is made into a '.dll' just
follow the tutorial information at the Sun web site.

>
> Thank you in advance,
> Oleg.
>
> P.S.: If you know how to call PowerPoint from Java or VC++,
> please speak out too.
>
>

Re: Java calling C# or VBA (MS Office API) ?
 

"Liz" <Liz@nospam.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:BcPvc.46977$Ly.42168@attbi_s01...
>
> "Oleg Konovalov" <okonovalov@sarnoff.com> wrote in message
> news:c9lia9$lno2@news.sarnoff.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am writing a Java application which among many other things
> > has to call some MS Office [PowerPoint] internal methods,
> > which only seems to be possible from either VBA or C#.
> >
> > Can anybody suggest a way of Java calling VBA or C# ?
> >
> > I do know how to call an executable from Java
> > or Java interface with C/C++ through JNI.
> >
>
> If the 'vba', 'c#', 'c' or 'c++' is made into a '.dll' just
> follow the tutorial information at the Sun web site.
>

Or use a java-com-bridge like JIntegra (commercial, but not very expensive,
http://j-integra.intrinsyc.com/). There is also a open source-like licensed
java-com-bridge http://danadler.com/jacob/. I've worked with Jintegra and am
very happy with it.

I think there are still more java-com-bridges, do a web search on "java com
bridge".

Regards
Stefan

Re: Java calling C# or VBA (MS Office API) ?
 

Liz,

Could you please post a link to the document on Sun's site ?

Thank you,
Oleg.

Liz wrote:

> "Oleg Konovalov" <okonovalov@sarnoff.com> wrote in message
> news:c9lia9$lno2@news.sarnoff.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am writing a Java application which among many other things
> > has to call some MS Office [PowerPoint] internal methods,
> > which only seems to be possible from either VBA or C#.
> >
> > Can anybody suggest a way of Java calling VBA or C# ?
> >
> > I do know how to call an executable from Java
> > or Java interface with C/C++ through JNI.
> >
>
> If the 'vba', 'c#', 'c' or 'c++' is made into a '.dll' just
> follow the tutorial information at the Sun web site.
>
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Oleg.
> >
> > P.S.: If you know how to call PowerPoint from Java or VC++,
> > please speak out too.
> >
> >

Re: Java calling C# or VBA (MS Office API) ?
 

JavaJug,

I have done a lot of Java-CORBA-C++ development before
and would not recommend that option unless you go from Java to C++
over the network, use JNI for that. Too much overhead and very hard to
debug.

In my case they live on same machine, so the only reason I am doing that
is because Microsoft doesn't give any access to Office API through Java
(that Sun-Microsoft wars over Java).

Thank you,
Oleg.

JavaJug wrote:

> Oleg Konovalov wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am writing a Java application which among many other things
> > has to call some MS Office [PowerPoint] internal methods,
> > which only seems to be possible from either VBA or C#.
> >
> > Can anybody suggest a way of Java calling VBA or C# ?
> >
> > I do know how to call an executable from Java
> > or Java interface with C/C++ through JNI.
> >
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Oleg.
> >
> > P.S.: If you know how to call PowerPoint from Java or VC++,
> > please speak out too.
> >
> >
>
> I'm not an expert, but I think that CORBA is usefull for such things.
> That's what told my CORBA teacher...
> Good luck !
>
> Xav

Re: Java calling C# or VBA (MS Office API) ?
 

On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 10:19:13 -0400, Oleg Konovalov wrote:

> (that Sun-Microsoft wars over Java).

They are supposed to be over.
<http://www.physci.org/jvmclean.jsp>
('recent' news near top of page)

Maybe if you ask MS again, nicely... ;-)

F'Ups set to c.l.j.programmer, as it
was one of only two of the five groups
to which this was cross-posted that is
actually a valid group.

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