Re: [Swarm-Support] extension of the swarm/gis project

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Jan Herrmann wrote:

> During my work, I'd like to focus on a controller which realizes the
> communication between GIS (for example ArcGis) and Swarm. Especially I want to
> implement a tool which transfers data from/to ArcGis.
ArcView is made up of a bunch of COM interfaces, a.k.a ArcObjects.
You can treat the package as a library, much like Swarm.

To do this, you should be able to make use of  the magic jactivex 
program from Microsoft's Java implementation and Java/Swarm.
Basically what you'd do is select the features you want from ArcView 
(from the programmers manual), and then use jactivex to create the Java 
interfaces. 

Then you import the Java classes from ArcView and the stuff you want 
from Swarm into your Java code. 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/com/htm/ctrans_0euk.asp