WebLogic Server to COM Communication
Now you will look at this communication from the other direction, for example, between a Java application or component deployed on WebLogic Server that needs to access a COM component, as shown in Figure 20.4.
Figure 20.4. Block diagram of WebLogic Server application to COM component communication.
For example, if you needed to open a Microsoft Word document and extract its contents in a Java application in WebLogic Server, how would you do it? Microsoft has modularized the Microsoft Office suite into COM-compliant applications. Hence, accessing a Word document is essentially the same as accessing an instance ...
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