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Friday, December 12th 2008, 6:04pm

Plugins, Components, ActiveX controls

:thumbsup: Jabaco is cool, but how about plugins,components,activeX controls e.t.c? ?(

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Saturday, December 13th 2008, 3:49am

> about plugins,components,activeX controls e.t.c

plugins: a generic interface?

components: use/write java/jabaco-components, or c++ over jni (or the jabaco jni wrapper)...

activex controls: there are many activex-libs for java. i don't know if any of them works well - but they are all very expensive (most > 800 $). you could write it and publish such a lib under the bsd license. if you do that i'll integrate that in jabaco :)

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Wednesday, December 31st 2008, 1:53pm

300$? 8|
How about GNU & Open source?!

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Wednesday, December 31st 2008, 2:48pm

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How about GNU & Open source?!
do you know some good libs?

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Monday, March 9th 2009, 6:27pm

As long as its Open Source and completely free honestly I don't care what it is, long as its efficient, or efficient enough :P Not too sure about any active x controls for JAVA (I never really used JAVA tbh) however, if you can't find any then don't worry about them really, eventually someone'll find or code some

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Wednesday, July 1st 2009, 5:15am

How to say yes for plugins and no for activex?

Plugins: yes, it is a great idea !
But activex will turn our software plataform dependent, i think so !

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Tuesday, April 6th 2010, 6:25pm

Gnome has bonobo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo_%28component_model%29
KDE has KPart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPart

Both also have a more modern COM/DCOM like API called D-Bus, but as far as i know it does not have a Custom Control layer.

I would suggest using D-Bus as it is cross-desktop and more modern then Bonobo and KPart.

Perhaps a ActiveX-like model can be used on top of D-Bus for custom control creation. As i dont know of one we have the freedom to shape it how we want it to be. For example we could make it similar to ActiveX making code easier to port.

Also i would prefer if no platform-dependent thing is implemented in Jabaco. That would make D-Bus the best choice as it is ported to many platforms including Windows. Using eiter KPart or Bonobo will probably ailienate part of the gnome or KDE community, so neither of them is a good choice.

Of course, for anything non-graphical D-Bus is probably the best.

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