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Can Java communicate with ActiveX objects? Explain how Java can communicate with ActiveX objects by using Bridge2Java from IBM. Bridge2Java is a tool for allowing the java applications for communicating with ActiveX objects. The integration of ActiveX into Java environment is easy. It is achieved by using JNI and COM technology and the ActiveX object is treated as a java object by Bridge2Java.
A proxy generating tool is required which creates the Java proxies from the ActiveX control typelib. Later there proxies are utilized for allowing a java application to communicate with the ActiveX object.
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