The JEDI API Library project (JWA) has been successfully revived from a sleep status to an active project with lots of ambitions. Some recent achievements are the new include model of JWA, the release of JWSCL (the Security Library) and of course the “birth” of this blog.

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Visit the Get Service site on SourceForge for more information like pricing.

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If you create a COM Server to serve some clients with COM interfaces (or better their functionality), you maybe get sometimes a dialog box that tells you that there are client connections opened. This happens as soon as you try to close your app. If you want to close it though, you have to explicitly [...]

If you are going to write a service you should consider why you need it to be a service at all. If you can run your application as a standard user, you should do it. A service is a high privileged application that should be created with care and clear thoughts.
So think about your task [...]

After making some changes to the A-records of the DNS servers responsible for *.delphi-jedi.net, a different host was queried by the clients (e.g. your browsers) for the contents of this blog. Obviously the other host didn’t know how to react and thus gave back a simple “no idea what file that is” (i.e. HTTP error [...]

If you want to use CreateProcess or CreateProcessAsUser and you also want to set the target desktop, you should make sure that the target winstation (usual winsta0) and desktop name (usual default) is spelled correctly.
If you misspell the name (say defaut instead of default - missing l ) the process creation may succeed but your [...]

The JEDI Community has an issue tracker where you can submit bugs, features and fixes. Please use this tracker for both JEDI projects API and WSCL.
http://homepages.borland.com/jedi/issuetracker
Switch to project “JEDI API” in the drop down field in the top right corner of the page.

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I am proud to announce the completed conversion of the Microsoft Event Tracing API for Windows (ETW).
What is ETW anyway?
MSDN says:
Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) provides application programmers the ability to start and stop event tracing sessions, instrument an application to provide trace events, and consume trace events. Trace events contain an event header [...]

I just finished reading this excellent article about code injection. However the article doesn’t go just into the “how to” stuff but also goes deeply into the organization of executable files. I have to thank Ashkbiz Danehkar for sharing his expert knowledge.
Go ahead, take your time and read Inject your code to a Portable Executable [...]

The group TrustedInstaller is not called “TrustedInstaller” but
“NT SERVICE\Trusted Installer“.
Yes with a slash and space in it.

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