just by the way:

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>* Does Apache have a native method for invoke COM objects? *

Apache 2 has said to have support for ISAPI. However typing,

http://localhost/foxisapi.dll?foxweb.server.hello?fred
or

localhost/foxisapi.dll

causes error

APACHE caused an invalid page fault in
module FOXISAPI.DLL at 015f:10003b36.

So there is no native way.
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The test you did was probably invalid. You don't just type a URL and then decide it doesn't work.

Getting *any* DLLs registered to be invoked as modules under Apache on a Wintel server is something you have to know how to do -- and you have to ask people on an Apache list if you want to know how to do it.

Having said that, I did *not* suggest that you try to use foxisapi with Apache.

I suggested that you ask, on an Apache list, whether Apache supported any syntax to call a COM or ActiveX component.


They will *probably* tell you that you have to use ChiliSoft or some other ASP variant. However there *may* be a simple JSP syntax equivalent. Or there may be a generic servlet that people use precisely for this reason.

It is not complicated, it is quite straightforward, to call a COM component from an ASP page.

There may be a completely straightforward answer -- and it is probably an FAQ, if there is one -- to doing this from a JSP page or a generic bean called from a JSP page.

Whether from JSP or ASP, at no time would FoxISAPI necessarily be involved.

>L<