Converting VB to Java
John McGuigan
message should go (probably in the bin :>).
For the past few months I've been developing a Visual Basic front end to our
customer database. The project needed to be up and running fairly quickly so
not knowing java I picked VB. My manager and myself both agreed at the time
it should be browser based due to the fact we have both PC and Mac clients,
but speed was the major issue.
The IT Director has now turned round and said that he wants a browser based
version within 2 months. Now as I said I don't know java, or jdbc, or beans,
or whatever so I'd be grateful if someone out there could tell me of a tool
which will take my VB code and its components (ADO, datagrid etc) and
convert them into java or active server pages or something I can embed into
a browser page.
Unfortunately Mac support is essential, personally I'd load a skip with the
Macs and solve my problem that way.
I don't have a problem with learning a new language, but time and lack of
experience in the language would probably make a dogs dinner of the whole
thing.
Anyway thanks for bearing with me.
Could you reply via e-mail as well as the newsgroups.
John McGuigan
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Aaz
John McGuigan wrote in message
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>Firstly let me apologise for cross-posting, but I'm not too sure where this
>message should go (probably in the bin :>).
>
>For the past few months I've been developing a Visual Basic front end to
our
>customer database. The project needed to be up and running fairly quickly
so
>not knowing java I picked VB. My manager and myself both agreed at the time
>it should be browser based due to the fact we have both PC and Mac clients,
>but speed was the major issue.
>
>The IT Director has now turned round and said that he wants a browser based
>version within 2 months. Now as I said I don't know java, or jdbc, or
beans,
>or whatever so I'd be grateful if someone out there could tell me of a tool
>which will take my VB code and its components (ADO, datagrid etc) and
>convert them into java or active server pages or something I can embed into
>a browser pa
The only tool I know that is able to convert COMPILED vb ocx-s
and use ActiveX dll-s & Documents is Ms Visual J++ 6.0
It's an Java tool that has some integrity with VB and C++ (Ms of course), so
you might be able to convert you vb code into Java, but
I'm not really sure. Good luck anyway.
Aaz
Igor V. Burtsev
VBScript and DHTML
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Avik Sengupta
http://www.greymatter.co.uk/gmWEB/nodes/NODE06C0.HTM
Cheers
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Avik
John McGuigan <j.mcg...@virgin.guig.net> wrote in message
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> Firstly let me apologise for cross-posting, but I'm not too sure where
this
> message should go (probably in the bin :>).
>
> For the past few months I've been developing a Visual Basic front end to
our
> customer database. The project needed to be up and running fairly quickly
so
> not knowing java I picked VB. My manager and myself both agreed at the
time
> it should be browser based due to the fact we have both PC and Mac
clients,
> but speed was the major issue.
>
> The IT Director has now turned round and said that he wants a browser
based
> version within 2 months. Now as I said I don't know java, or jdbc, or
beans,
> or whatever so I'd be grateful if someone out there could tell me of a
tool
> which will take my VB code and its components (ADO, datagrid etc) and
> convert them into java or active server pages or something I can embed
into
Avik Sengupta
http://www.halcyonsoft.com/prods/converter/converter.htm
Jeff Jones
VB6 supports this nicely, and would leverage your existing code. If you run
IIS as your web server, any HTML browser can use it, since all the
VB/COM/ODBC stuff stays on the server, and all the browser see is HTML. No
having to worry about learning Java and putting up with its inherent
slowness. VB6 also supports creating DHTML pages, but given that you want
to support other than Windows, ASP may be the better of the two.
You may have other criteria that preclude this solution, but it is how I
would handle such a request.
Jeff Jones
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