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<h1>What's New in JACOB 1.8</H1>
<ul>
<li>
<b>Move To SourceForge</b>
The project is not housed at
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jacob-project/">Sourceforge.net</a>.
</li>
<li>
<b>Licensing Change</b>
All limitations on commercial use of JACOB have been removed and it
is now being developed under a BSD license at
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jacob-project/">Sourceforge.net</a>.
</li>
<li>
<b>Compiled with Java 1.4.2</b>
Version 1.8 was compiled with JSEE 1.4.2 and fixes the compilation bug
that was remnant of compilation with JDK 1.1.
</li>
<li>
<b>Baseline For Change</b>
This version is the baseline for the first CVS checkin and we encourage
people to start contributing to the project with this version.
</li>
</ul>
<li>
<h1>What's New in JACOB 1.7</H1>
<ul>
<li>
<b>Explicit COM Threading Model Support:</b>
See a detailed discussion of
<a href="JacobThreading.html">COM Apartments in JACOB</a>
</li>
<li>
<b>New COM Object Lifetime model:</b>
See a detailed discussion of
<a href="JacobComLifetime.html">COM Object Lifetime in JACOB</a>.
</li>
<li>
<b>Improved Event Handling:</b>
Thanks to code contributed by
<a href="mailto:n.o.bouvin@daimi.au.dk">
Niels Olof Bouvin</a>
and <a href="mailto:jehoej@daimi.au.dk">Henning Jae</a> JACOB 1.7 can
read the type information of a Connection Point interface by looking
it up in the registry. This makes it possible to use events with IE as
well as office products.
</li>
<li>
<b>Improved Dispatch:</b>
Error messages from Invoke failures are now printed out as well as
allowing the passing in of arguments to a Get method.
</li>
<li>
<b>EnumVariant Implementation:</b>
Makes it easier to iterate over COM collections. Thanks to code
contributed by
<a href="mailto:Thomas.Hallgren@eoncompany.com">Thomas Hallgren</a>.
</li>
<li>
<b>SafeArray leaks:</b>
SafeArrays were not being properly freed prior to version 1.7, many
other memory leaks were fixed as well.
</li>
<li>
<b>Visual Studio Project:</b>
For those who want to debug: vstudio/jacob. At the moment all the
native code is replicated there from the jni directory...
</li>
</ul>
<H1>Related Links</H1>
<ul>
<li>
The JACOB mailing list is hosted at yahoo groups:
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jacob-project">
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jacob-project</a>.
<b>This is the preferred way to get support for JACOB</b>. It also
includes an extensive archive. If you are doing any development with
JACOB, please join the list.
<li>
Massimiliano Bigatti has developed
<a href="http://www.bigatti.it/projects/jacobgen/">
Jacobgen - a generator that automatically creates JACOB code from
Type Libraries</a>
</li>
<li>
Steven Lewis is developing a version of Java2Com that supports JACOB
code generation. See:
<a href="http://www.lordjoe.com/Java2Com/index.html">
http://www.lordjoe.com/Java2Com/index.html</a>.
<li>
To find documentation on the com.ms.com package, go to:
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/java/download/dl_sdk40.htm">
http://www.microsoft.com/java/download/dl_sdk40.htm</a>
and at the bottom of the page is a link that says:
Microsoft SDK for Java 4.0 Documentation Only. You should download
that file and install it. Then, view sdkdocs.chm and look for
"Microsoft Packages Reference". Hopefully, the next release of
JACOB will include full javadoc (volunteers?)...
</li>