Link VB and JAVA

Microsoft has rather finished support for java, its not like last time when we could interface vb with java easily, these days we have to do using some third party softwares that are not free or open source and are complicated to use notforgetting the system resources they use up. Due to this problem, i came up with a very simple yet effective way to connect them - using a database, a timer and a thread!! hope you can benefit from it...