Tom Schindl wrote: > Dave Calkins schrieb: > >> Niklas Nebel wrote: >> >>> Dave Calkins wrote: >>> >>>> I'd like to be able to export to an Excel file from my app which will >>>> be running in a shop floor environment on a machine which would not >>>> have MS Office or Open Office installed. >>>> >>> Why don't you just install OOo and control it using the API? >>> >>> >> I don't have control over the machines on which our app is running, so >> the only thing I know for sure is that they'll have our app installed. >> Also, the machines on the shop floor running our app don't have a need >> for a full office suite, since they're collecting/generating the data >> and only want to be able to export to Excel for review later on other >> machines. Having them install OOo would probably be overkill. Of >> course, there's the option of including the OOo installation within our >> app's installation, but that would probably really grow the size of our >> installer. >> >> For similar reasons we wanted to avoid the MS Office automation >> interfaces. Using them would require having the MS Office SW installed >> on the machine where our app was running and we couldn't ensure that >> either. Which is why we're looking for something to let us directly >> write the binary file format and OOo seemed liked a good possibility. >> > > Did you thought about jakarta-POI? > Another alternative is jExcelApi. I have recently tried compiling it with gcj and found that it works well, so you can still use native code rather than installing Java. I haven't tried the same with jakarta-POI
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