Re: Calling Java from other programs
Alex.From.Ohio.Java@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 3, 5:00 pm, Arne VajhHj <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
fsumathguy wrote:
I am developing a model to be used by others within my company.
Because the end users are sort of a mixed bag with respect to
technical backgrounds, we generally present everything in MS Excel.
While Excel comes with VBA, I find this language cumbersome and
annoying to develop anything larger than a few lines. My program of
choice is Java. My question is, how can I do my development in Java,
then compile the results into an executable that I could subsequently
call from VBA? My boss (who is somewhat old school with repect to
programming) does a similar thing using Fortran 90. He is able to
generate a DLL file which allows him to pass all of the needed
parameters to his Fortran routine from VBA. Can I do something
similar with Java?
In theory you can:
VBA---(Win32 DLL call)--->simple wrapper in C---(JNI call)--->Java
In most cases I think it would be too cumbersome.
Why not simply communicate with already running JVM.
VBA <-> Java.
Because that was not what was asked for.
It could be done by TCP/webservices/JNI/whatever.
Is it possible to connect to a running JVM via JNI ??
Arne
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