External Interface Options available

Greetings,

With the announcement that SAP will not support DCOM connector after this year and the DOTNET connector still a little too new... (for most customers)

What are the interface options available to use Visual Basic to simply call a BAPI or RFC these days?

Business connector seems to be too much technology for this, Java connector is, well - Java...

This used to be a very simple and straightforward call.