Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, I don't think I will be able to use it as we have these blessed jars which have to get past SW Engg. before they can be added to the code base. Oh well, I guess I will have to make my local box point to the other tiers for testing them. Harsh.
-----Original Message----- From: Oytun Askin (GMail) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 11:22 AM To: POI Users List Subject: Re: Use POI to call Excel macro Hey there, try JaCob , they seem to have a good way of communicating with most MS products from Java. They are also mutli-thread aware. The website is http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/jacob-project i beileve. Good luck, hope this helps. On 7/28/06, Chaudhary, Harsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, I will take your word for it. I need to call a macro every time I run > a jUnit test as my reference data comes from an Excel spreadsheet from an > actuary. But the codebase itself is installed on a UNIX machine. > Harsh. > > -----Original Message----- > From: KHZ (SAW) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 11:15 AM > To: 'POI Users List' > Subject: AW: Use POI to call Excel macro > > > Hi Harsh. > > POI interpretes (read)/emulates (write) the physical structures of an > Excel > file. > > Excel macros are COM programming on a higher level not having to take care > for several COM details. > > Being able to call Excel macros would mean that POI would reimplement all > that things. Otherwise POI without having installed Office would be > useless. > > So I'm quite sure that such things are rather unlikely to be implemented > at > all. > > Even things like OOo (Open Office) aren't able to call the VB macros. > > Regards, Karl-Heinz. > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Chaudhary, Harsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Freitag, 28. Juli 2006 18:09 > An: POI Users List > Betreff: Use POI to call Excel macro > > Hi all, > Is there a way I can use POI to call Excel macros? > Harsh. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi > The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi > The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi > The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ > > -- Oytun Aşkın [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
