John, you may also want to check POI at Jakarta http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/index.html
I haven't looked much into it, but the index page states "The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java." Might be worth a shot. Alvaro "This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments." > -----Original Message----- > From: John Cavacas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 12 February 2003 12:29 > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: [OT] Generating microsoft word documents > > > I'm currently doing some initial research on the possibility > of generating > Microsoft word documents (yuk) from a web application for a > project that I > am working on. The web app portion of course would use > struts. However, as I > suspected, I'm finding that creating word documents from Java > is, well for a > lack of better words, a pain in the ass. > > I've looked at POI and their HDF classes, but it seems to be > in very very > early state. I've also looked at some Java COM wrappers which > seem that > would work, however it forces you to use COM. > > I was wondering if anyone in the list has had some experience > with something > like this and would care to share their experiences. Any > suggestions would > be appreciated as well. > > Regards, > John > > > > This communication is intended for the use of the > individual(s) or entity it > was addressed to and may contain confidential and/or > privileged information. > If the reader of this transmission is not the intended > recipient, you are > hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution > or copying of > this communication is prohibited. If you receive this > communication in > error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this > communication > from your system(s) to which it was sent and/or replicated > to. (c) 2002 > Sapiens Americas Corp. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
