cleaned up variant serialization code. Its still broken. There just isn't as much of it now.

unittest/com/jacob/com/ExcelEventTest.java

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package com.jacob.com;
 
 import com.jacob.activeX.ActiveXComponent;
-import com.jacob.com.ComFailException;
 import com.jacob.com.DispatchEvents;
 
 /**
@@ -60,7 +59,7 @@ public class ExcelEventTest extends InvocationProxy {
 			Dispatch.call(workbook, "Close", f);
 			axc.invoke("Quit", new Variant[] {});
 
-		} catch (ComFailException cfe) {
+		} catch (ComException cfe) {
 			cfe.printStackTrace();
 			System.out.println("Failed to attach to " + pid + ": "
 					+ cfe.getMessage());

unittest/com/jacob/com/VariantSerializationTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+package com.jacob.com;
+
+import java.io.*;
+
+/**
+ * Verifies serialization works for variants.
+ * Variant serialization is BROKEN and has been since 1.7
+ * <pre>-Djava.library.path=d:/jacob/release</pre>
+ */
+class VariantSerializationTest {
+
+	static Variant vs1 = new Variant("hi");
+	static Variant vs2 = new Variant(123.456);
+
+	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+		doJustSerialization();
+		compareVariantBytes();
+	}
+
+	private static void compareVariantBytes() throws Exception{
+		System.out.println("compareVariantBytes");
+		Variant var1 = new Variant("hello");
+		Variant var2 = new Variant("hello");
+		byte[] var1Bytes = var1.SerializationWriteToBytes();
+		byte[] var2Bytes = var2.SerializationWriteToBytes();
+		for ( int i = 0 ; i < var1Bytes.length; i++){
+			if (var1Bytes[i]!=var2Bytes[i]){
+				System.out.println("variant strings differ at position "+i);
+				return;
+			}
+		}
+		System.out.println("two strings return identical serialization data");
+	}
+	
+	private static void doJustSerialization() throws Exception {
+		System.out.println("doJustSerialization");
+		// same thing with serialization
+		FileOutputStream fos;
+		FileInputStream fis;
+		fos = new FileOutputStream("foo.ser");
+		ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
+		oos.writeObject(vs1);
+		//oos.writeObject(vs2);
+		oos.close();
+		fos.close();
+
+		fis = new FileInputStream("foo.ser");
+		ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
+
+		Variant vss1 = null;
+		Variant vss2 = null;
+
+		vss1 = (Variant) ois.readObject();
+		//vss2 = (Variant) ois.readObject();
+		ois.close();
+		fis.close();
+
+		System.out.println(vss1);
+		System.out.println(vss2);
+	}
+}

unittest/com/jacob/com/VariantTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package com.jacob.com;
+
+/**
+ * runs through some of the get and set methods on Variant
+ */
+class VariantTest {
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		//deprecated
+		//System.runFinalizersOnExit(true);
+		Variant v = new Variant();
+		v.putInt(10);
+		System.out.println("got=" + v.toInt());
+		v.putInt(10);
+		System.out.println("got=" + v.toDouble());
+		v.putString("1234.567");
+		System.out.println("got=" + v.toString());
+		v.putBoolean(true);
+		System.out.println("got=" + v.toBoolean());
+		v.putBoolean(false);
+		System.out.println("got=" + v.toBoolean());
+		v.putCurrency(123456789123456789L);
+		System.out.println("got=" + v.toCurrency());
+	}
+}

unittest/com/jacob/com/WordEventTest.java

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package com.jacob.com;
 
 import com.jacob.activeX.ActiveXComponent;
-import com.jacob.com.ComFailException;
+import com.jacob.com.ComException;
 import com.jacob.com.DispatchEvents;
 
 /**
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ public class WordEventTest extends InvocationProxy {
 			}
 			axc.invoke("Quit", new Variant[] {});
 
-		} catch (ComFailException cfe) {
+		} catch (ComException cfe) {
 			cfe.printStackTrace();
 			System.out.println("Failed to attach to " + pid + ": "
 					+ cfe.getMessage());