What is Suns position on writing ActiveX components in the Java programming language?
Sun recommends writing portable JavaBeans components, so that developers have the broadest range of platforms and devices on which to run their components. For developers interested in having their components interoperate with existing ActiveX components, Sun provides the JavaBeans Bridge for ActiveX. The Bridge provide 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.