What are the advantages of the Bridging functionality?
This provides users of legacy OLE/COM/ActiveX containers such as Word or Visual Basic with the ability to embed and use portable JavaBeans components in the same way they would previously embed and use platform-specific OLE/COM/ActiveX components. Component developers can safely construct and deploy advanced, platform Java Plug-in Software dependent JavaBeans components with the knowledge that they will also be fully functional inside of legacy applications.