Unable to register DLL

Question

I am using JDK/JRE 1.4.2_08 on Windows XP Professional Version 2002, SP1. I have Visual C++ 6.0 on my system. I upgraded to SP6.
j: is a substituted drive mapped to c:\dev0p.
I create the jar and dll files. I issue the following commands:
cd j:\java\classes\bin
regsvr32 ImageViewerBean.dll
I get this message:
DllRegisterServer in ImageViewerBean.dll failed.
Return code was: 0x80004005
The .jar file is in j:\java\classes\lib and the .dll was created in j:\java\classes\bin.
Putting the full path (c:\windows\system32) for the regsvr32 cmmand made no difference.
Any ideas what this error means and what can I do to register my dll?
I created the dll using the packager by the following commands:
set classpath=j:\java\classes;j:\tools\jar\station.jar;j:\tools\jar\jgl3.1.0.jar;..\jre\lib\rt.jar;..\jre\lib\jaws.jar;
call "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin\VCVARS32.BAT"
packager -out j:\java\classes\bin j:\java\classes\lib\ImageViewerBean.jar com.adachcis.IApplications.Cedara.ImageViewerBean
This is the output from the commands. The ImageViewerBean.dll was created in the j:\java\classes\bin directory.
C:\dev0p\java\build>set classpath=j:\java\classes;j:\tools\jar\station.jar;j:\tools\jar\jgl3.1.0.jar;..\jre\lib\rt.jar;..\jre\lib\jaws.jar;
C:\dev0p\java\build>call "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin\VCVARS32.BAT"
Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual C++ tools.
Processing C:\DOCUME~1\es9527\LOCALS~1\Temp\\ImageViewerBean.idl
Processing C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\INCLUDE\oaidl.idl
Processing C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\INCLUDE\objidl.idl
Processing C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\INCLUDE\unknwn.idl
Processing C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\VC98\INCLUDE\wtypes.idl

Answer 1

As I understand the instructions, you only have to have the axbridge\bin directory if you don't specify a -out parameter. From the instructions I've read (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/beans/axbridge/developerguide/index.html), you should be able to specify a -out then go to that directory and run regsvr32 <bean name>.dll to register the dll.
I did, in fact, create the axbridge\bin directory, specified it as the -out and used the -reg option and it did register my bean. I just now need to figure out how to create a file for my clients to use to register the bean once it's been deployed.
My latest VM is 1.4.2_08 so it should be using that one. Is there a way I can determine which VM is being used?
Thanks for the reply.