The misery of one developer using the ActiveX Bridge

Question

Hi,
I'm not sure that anyone will know how to solve my problems, but I can at least complain.
In our firm we have used the ActiveXBridge to wrap an OrbixWeb (CORBA) client. All was written in VB Java 1.3. Please don't discuss these choices it is not the point and not my choices anyway..
Now We are migrating to 1.5. And here are the problems I have encountered:
1. The architecture has changed. Now there are Dll instead of TLD that are generated.
2. It is not possible to change the name of the ActiveX when generating.
3. The JRE that is used is always the public JRE!!!.
4. The security restriction blocks the reading of system properties or files, which was done by the former dll.
5. The solution found was to sign the jar.
6. ORB dynamic instantiation does not work well with the class loader used by the plugin. Even if the actual implementation of the ORB is deployed, the JRE complains that the class is not available.
7. The solution was -> install the orbixWeb jar in the ext folder :-(
8. Unfortunately even with this and a java.policy that indicates that all the jar in the ext folder are given all permission, the instantiation does not work : System.getProperties is not allowed (even if this jar is signed)..
9. Solution was to add the global permission to read/write properties :--(
10. ORB are good at connecting to other servers.. then this also was not allowed
11. Solution was to remove all global security setting (sigh)
12. The program was still not working.. because I was using the java.security.debug options and this interfered with the logs of the javaBean.
If someone has good ideas on how to avoid the solutions used in point
3. 7. 11.
3 <- Bug (or feature of the bridge?)
7. <- Misunderstanding on how the security works by me, or how to change the class loader for the activeX
11 <- security misunderstanding? bug?
Anyway the bridge was weak, and 1.5 made it worse.

Answer 1

Hi,
As far as I understand your requirement, you want to pass the result of one query to another query as a filter.
Well you can do this, by Using Replacement Path Variable.
For e.g. you want to pass Values of Custmomer Account Number to another query. In the second query, create one variable on Customer Account Number with type Replacment Path. Here it will ask you to enter the name of the query from which you would like to take the values of Customer Account Number.
When you will run the second query , it will execute the first query from which you want to read the customer accoutn number in the back-end. And it willl display the output the second query as per the valeus of customer account number.
This will help.
- Jaimin