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In article <3adad84b_2@dnews>, Ray Porter <ray_porter@unc.edu> writes
> We have
>several fairly major client/server and desktop applications (currently in
>Delphi) that interact directly with the Windows api and the office suite of
>tools.  These are functions that our customers have requested and require
>(for example, exports of query results to local MS Access databases or to
>Excel and Word, etc). 

 On the first point, you use the Java Native Interface to build a DLL
 which wraps your accesses to the Office-API.  It is best to do GUI
 the Java way but, if you really need to do special things by direct
 access to the Windows API, same thing.  

 It can be hell on wheels because the Java concept of an array or string
 is unlike the C++ concept, it takes some work converting them.
 Of course it will not then be portable;  comparable native code would
 have to be provided on any new platform you moved to.


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