How can I invoke ActiveX component in my JSPs?

Question

It's appreciated so much if there are some source code for illustration.
TIA!

Answer 1

All of these guys are right, but I am assuming that you are talking about invoking an ActiveX control on the client. If that is the case, then the answer is easy. Remember that JSPs, servlets, etc are processed on the server, and the output to the client is HTML.
Therefore whatever needs to be done in HTML to invoke an ActiveX client, the same needs to be done in JSP (with the advantage that you may be able to parameterise your ActiveX control by dynamically generating the VBScript through object manipulation in Java on the server before it gets to the client).
Invoking an ActiveX control is generally done through a combination of VBScript (which you can include inside <script language="VBScript"></script> tags within your jsp) and the HTML <object> tag.
For example, to invoke the NetMeeting ActiveX control use<object
  WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" ID="NetMeeting"
  CLASSID="CLSID:3E9BAF2D-7A79-11d2-9334-0000F875AE17">
</object>To include the Microsoft Outlook ActiveX control, and download it if it doesn't already exist on the client use<OBJECT
  classid=CLSID:0006F063-0000-0000-C000-000000000046
  id=ViewCtlFolder width="100%" height="430"
  codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/office/outlctlx.CAB#ver=9,0,0,3203">
</OBJECT>There is an example on Microsoft's site at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B183329 that
shows how to use ASP to generate the VBScript to be used to control the TreeView ActiveX control. While this is an ASP example, the same principles can be applied to JSP.