Class Library Support

Microsoft will provide a set of classes which provide the equivalent functionality as provided by the COM library API, but are packaged and defined in such a way as to be very natural for Java programmers to use.

Java classes will be provided for each of the following major COM technologies:

• Core COM Library functionality. This maps roughly to the API's whose names are prefixed with "Co".
• Monikers.
• Structured storage.
• Utilities (e.g. StringFromGUID).

In addition, the Microsoft will provide classes which will make implementing various ActiveX™ components as easy as inheriting from a particular base class:

• ActiveX™ Controls and containers
• ActiveX™ document objects (DocObjs) and containers