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Call COM object (Open source solution)

com4j
A Java library that allows Java applications to seemlessly interoperate with Microsoft Component Object Model.

First generate Java type definitions from a COM type library. Here we are doing for the type library for the Windows Scripting Host.

> java -jar tlbimp.jar -o wsh -p test.wsh %WINDIR%\system32\wshom.ocx

Then we are able to call WSH objects/methods.

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    IFileSystem3 fs = ClassFactory.createFileSystemObject();
    for( String file : args )
      System.out.println(fs.getFileVersion(file));
  }
}

See https://com4j.dev.java.net/

See also this HowTo for an alternative package to access a COM package from Java.


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