Sun JDK 1.3.1 calling a Microsoft COM object???

Question

My question, which inevitably in my eyes has been deemed impossible to answer, is as follows: How can one incorporate MS VM to connect to an MS COM object using Sun�s JDK 1.3.1?
I�ve tried the following: I ran the simple example of a COM object with a client interfacing with that COM object that came with MS SDK for Java 4.0. I built the *java files using the given makefile (jvc).  I registered the Hub with javareg and created a hub.tlb with jactivex. 
Using JBuilder 4.0, I built a small non-swing object that created in instance of the Client class from above:
import sample.dcom.*;
public class Main
public Main()
try
// MS Client � the Client class creates the COM object connection to HUB
Client client = new Client();
catch( Exception exception )
System.err.println("Default exception caught");
System.err.println(exception);
exception.printStackTrace();
I was able to compile/make the above snippet of code, but without having access to the com.ms* classes and without loading a library (since the Hub class actually references a native function), I was not able to run my application:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: addListener
     at hub.Hub.addListener(Native Method)
     at sample.dcom.Client.<init>(Client.java)
     at am.temp.Main.<init>(Main.java:30)
     at am.temp.Main.main(Main.java:44)
However, if run the following command: jview Main, I get the necessary results. Which is what I thought would happen. I tried doing the same thing within a swing application, however, to my not-so-surprise, MS doesn�t contain swing components. I�ve read through many forum headaches: �I�ve tried appending rt.jar�, �You can�t mix MS with Sun�, etc.
Therefore, has anyone had any luck creating/connecting/instantiating a MS COM object while trying to run it under Sun�s VM? Note: I have to do it this way since the application I�m trying to connect to is built as a COM server and I�m using Java as my application language.
Thank you.

Answer 1

gui != COM.
In other words COM objects are not limited to GUI objects. From your question it looks like you have a COM object which is a gui component. And you want to use it in swing. If it is just a fancy drop down box then I would say the complexity isn't worth it. If it does more, then I believe that people have put 'windows' into swing frames. You can search this forum or perhaps the "Advanced Programming" (or even all forums) for more discussion on that.