When the right way to do it won't work....
I was originally writing the xls to the servlet response stream. This proved
to be
wildly inconsistent across different browsers. IE even exhibited a few
different
behaviors (depending upon whether Excel was already open on the
desktop,etc...)
I ended up writing the bytes to a temp .xls file on the server and
redirecting
to that. In IE the xls opens up in the browser. It's a bit more overhead to
do the IO
obviously but it works consistently from a user standpoint - and that's all
my user's
care about ;)
You need a background thread to remove the temp files after a period of time
also.
-Chris
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I would love to see that as well.. I am having the same issue, I have to
have the user rightclick the link and save to the desktop.. If there was a
contrib directory, this type of servlet might be a good addition.
Eric
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I tried the suggestion in "HSSF: Can workbooks come up from IE?".
I used a servlet to send an excel file to the client, But it does not work!
Could somebody post an example?
Thank you!
Anders
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