Installing and use-case for Scriptom

[merlinbeedell]

I have been using Scriptom / Jacob on a windows project for some time now. I use it to list, start & stop Windows Services (using the 'java wrapper') for our applications. It has worked great for several years now.

Scriptom was packaged with Groovy versions 1 and 2 - but it was dropped with Apache Groovy / version 3. So I just copied the scriptom / jacob .jar files and the 2 .dll's over into Groovy 3. This was simple:
/bin/jacob1.16 dlls (2 files, 32 bit and 64 bit)
/lib/jacob1.16.jar plus the scriptom .jar files
I cant see a pre-complied set of scriptom files in this project - and because Groovy makes scripting so easy, I really would not know how to make/build/compile this project. So a binary download would be most helpful with instructions on how to pop them into Groovy with Jacob.

Today it raised a memory fault in the dll. I had tried to use it with Groovy 4 - but that was a non-starter. Reverting to Groovy 3, and the error started.
So instead I grabbed the latest jacob release from github (version 1.20) and it worked a treat.

Thanks for keeping the candle burning on this. Though I am sure there will be (is?) an alternative to COM at some point. If so, referencing it here would be most useful.