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Would there be any merit in keeping the desktop apps in Delphi, so that you
can do all the API stuff, and have them talk to the server by CORBA, or the
EJB-COM bridge, or (even) TCP?

Owen

> In their infinite wisdom, our management has decreed that all applications
> (everything from mainframe CICS to little desktop apps) must be converted
to
> Java, with Oracle as the backend database if a db is needed.  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).  Is there a way to duplicate this functionality in
> Java?  Can Java automate Windows applications?  The preferred methodology
> here is Java servlets and JSP which I think leaves us with even less
ability
> to interact with the local operating system.
>