IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration
by Bill Hines, Tom Alcott, Keys Botzum, Roland Barcia
ActiveX Clients
ActiveX components run inside a Visual Basic application from VBScript or an Active Server Page (ASP) container. The ActiveX to EJB Bridge must be installed from the Application Clients CD to support ActiveX interaction with WAS. The bridge is a set of ActiveX automation objects, and it provides an environment similar to the full J2EE client, which in addition to EJB access also allows ActiveX usage of J2EE resources such as JDBC and JMS through standard naming constructs.
The bridge loads the JVM into the ActiveX container. This construct allows the ActiveX client to use Java Native Interface (JNI) to call into the WAS client container JVM to access J2EE services that allow it to interface with a remote WAS server. The use of ...
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