This is also possible using Excel Web Services if using SharePoint is an option.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms546696.aspx How flexible does this solution need to be? Do they need to be able to load any arbitrary Excel file into the web app, which are in turn available to users? Or is it just a fixed set, with some minor changes here and there? Is it worth parsing Excel files? Or can you just recreate the spreadsheet experience using Flex and a Grid component, with the calculations taking place on the backend? On 1 July 2010 00:50, Rodolfo <r_bo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > If you are familiar with Java you may evaluate > > JExcelAPI (http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/) or Apache POI > (http://poi.apache.org/) to open existing spreadsheet on server, modify data > and return formula results in server services. > > Regards. > Rodolfo. > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul Andrews <p...@...> wrote: >> >> On 29/06/2010 15:53, Gregor Kiddie wrote: >> > >> > >> > How about running open office on your back end, having it open the >> > spreadsheet on request and doing the work there? >> > >> >> It's an interesting idea. I'll check it out. >> >> Paul >> >> > Gk. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Alternative FAQ location: > https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links > > > >
