BEA WebLogic Server™ 8.1 Unleashed
by Mark Artiges, Gupreet Singh Bhasin, Bernard Ciconte, Malcolm Garland, Saranathan Govindarajan, James Huang, Subramanian Kovilmadam, Kunal Mittal, Paul J. Perrone, Tom Schwenk, Steve Steffen
Dealing with the Data Types
After jCOM is configured and up and running, you'll find that the only real day-to-day programming task you'll encounter is in dealing with the data types that you send and receive from the server objects you've exposed. From a Java or COM client perspective, you'll need to reconcile between individual idiosyncrasies in the primitive data type mappings that jCOM provides.
Overall, jCOM should be given credit for providing a workable solution to a difficult problem and doing a very good job of mapping primitive and complex data types across platforms into a form familiar to programmers on either side. But as with all integration efforts, you shouldn't expect perfection. For example, a COM VariantEnumeration type is ...
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