Java and COM

There are so many application extensions you can build with Microsoft Office applications using COM, but that's no use to Java developers … unless they have a handy Java-to-COM bridge. Using JCom you can control just about any COM object from within Java, plus it comes with some great helper classes for Excel right out of the box.

rating comment: This article gives you a brief overview of JCOM, by providing a small example which reveals the first steps of using COM with Java. Unfortunately the article gives no detailed information about JCOM itself.