To ease the building of REFLEX Enterprise RComponent clients a custom component in the form of
a JavaBean and ActiveX control (TLB) has been provided, details of which can be found below.
Enterprise RComponents Client JavaBean
This standard JavaBean provides access to RComponents via CORBA/IIOP through
the EJB container using the
REFLEX RComponent stateless session bean.
This component is also available as an
ActiveX TLB for use
with Visual C++/Visual Basic (via the ActiveX bridge provided with
the Java Plug-in). The bean exposes two properties, available via either ActiveX/Bean property sheets,
enabling the component to communicate with the specified host address, and JNDI named component.
After setting these properties an application using the JavaBean component can invoke (via IIOP)
functionality on the RComponent. The JavaBean component also allows the user to get various
information from RComponent's metalevel such as the current configuration and supported call interfaces.
For further information on the Enterprise RComponents Client JavaBean see the documentation.
The JavaBean is available in JAR form here.
Enterprise RComponents Client ActiveX TLB
The above JavaBean has been packaged as an ActiveX TLB (type library) using the Java plugin (version 1.3.1)
beans.ocx control. Because of registry incompatibilities between versions we recommend installation of
version 1.3.1. The control will not register correctly unless this version is installed. To use the control,
- Install the Java Plug-in 1.3.1
- Get the ZIP file containg the control
To use the control you must first extract the ZIP into a suitable directory, then register it
by clicking on the "DistibREFLEXBean.reg" file to merge the control information into the Windows
registry. You can then import the control into either Visual C++ or Visual Basic in the usual manner,
setting its properties for host, and component before deployment. See the
API for method detail.
For re-distribution all files contained in this ZIP must be deployed with the application for successful
installation to occur on a client machine.
Visual Basic Enterprise RComponents Client ActiveX Demo
A simple configuration monitor has been developed using Visual Basic and the Enterprise
RComponents Client Control. The program monitors the state of the
REFLEX Enterprise RComponents demo
for the simple share pricing web service. To use the monitor on another component or
host simply change the values in the interface.
To install the program,
- Install the Java Plug-in 1.3.1
- Get the ZIP file containg the application and unzip
- Click on setup.exe to install.
- Run the program from the start menu.
Note - You must use version 1.3.1 of the Java plug-in to run this program.
Source code is available here.
