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Existing Java applets, developed with the Sun JDK 1.0, are automatically exposed as ActiveX™ Controls by the Microsoft VM. ActiveX™ Controls is just a new name for OLE Controls. One implication of this is that any Java applet can now be put onto any application that supports ActiveX™ Controls, including Microsoft® Visual Basic®, Microsoft® Access, Delphi, and Power Builder.

Java is a very good tool for creating server applications because it supports the creation of thread-safe objects and because COM allows thread-safe objects to be executed remotely very efficiently.