Installing ActiveX Bridge

I have installed JDK 1.0 (VisualCafePDE) and JDK 1.2, BDK 1.0. In C: I have \Programs\Javasoft\Jre\1.2\ and \1.3\.
JRE.EXE is only in VisualCafePDE\Java\Bin\.
I have now installed "j2re1_3_1-win-i.exe" the new 1.3.1 Plugin. Ok for plug-in and applets but where is the bridge? In the docs they speak of ">java sun.beans.ole.Packager" or of ">jre -cp ...;lib\swingall.jar;...;%CLASSPATH%sun.beans.ole.Packager".
But where is Packager ? Where is swingall.jar? where is the folder \bridge\ ?
May somebody help me ?
Thanks.

Thanks Matthew for your reply.
With the right JAWS.JAR it worked.
Finally I have listed the contents of my four JAWS.JAR (>JAR -tf JAWS.JAR) and found the good one.
In the books and in the SUN page it is absolutely not clear.
By the way, I have never understood the CLASSPATH for JDK 1.2 (in place of the former CLASSES.ZIP).
I should make some housekeeping of the many versions I have installed.
Thanks again and regards.
Carlo

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See inline
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I have a bean that's based on a JPanel. I am packaging
it and then using it in Visual Basic as an OCX
component.
I have to adhere to an interface on the VB side so
that the bean will plug into the rest of our product.
I'm hitting several problems, all of which I'm
attributing to to the fact that the packager
introspects the interface for the typelib instead of
asking me what I want to expose and how I want to
expose it.Did you make sure that you marked the bean in the jar
correctly? (The manifest.mf must declare the bean as bean
so that the corresponding bean info can be found in the same jar)
>
1) Getter/Setter methods for properties which contain
additional attributes arent recognised as such.
e.g. for property foo:
public int getFoo() is fine
but
public int getFoo(int extraCriteria) doesn't work.
The packager doesn't recognise it as a valid getter
and so doesn't bind it to Foo in the typelib.
NB: I've also tried explicitly binding the methods in
the bean's beanInfo, (using PropertyDescriptors), but
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have to have a certain signature. If your method is public
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(That always worked for me...)
>
2) Typelib is only generated for the top level bean so
how do I provide a similar interface for any java
object that it returns?Run the packager over all additional beans.
>
Any java objects that I return from methods in my bean
cannot be interfaced:
Therefore I have to deal with them all as VB Object
and I'm also back to square one with my getFoo instead
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method, create new objects for some other class, pass it to your bean
etc).
>
3) The packager arbitrarily listens to, and exposes,
any events that my class throws. This includes events
that are fired from any of the classes that I'm
extending. Therefore I'm getting 20+ events showing
up from my JPanel on the VB side, NONE of which I'm
interested in. When the packager finds an event
firing method it automatically exposes it AND
registers the activex bridge as a listener of it.
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>
Basically I need help in either a) solving these
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