Hey!
But as you know, this solution #1 is not 100% Java.
Would it be nice if some company would take JTable and emulate Excel,
albeit, a large project. :>)
Any takers would make B$. Hardly a week goes by without someone
asking me for this.
Sans adieu,
Danny Rubis
David Bullock wrote:
> One approach would be to use a multi-tiered solution, where Excel and a your
> Java-COM server ran on an NT machine, and your servlet made RMI calls to it.
> Excel can function in this manner as a faceless server, because it is a COM
> Automation object. You can even instruct it to save a file to a networked
> location so that the Servlet can pick up the file later.
>
> IBM alphaWorks has a JavaBean that communicates with Excel, if you want a
> demonstration of the COM aspect of this idea.
>
> Another (more complicated, more expensive) solution is to use a Java-CORBA-COM
> architecture. Your Java Servlet on Solaris makes CORBA calls to an Excel stub
> in a Naming Service that was generated on-the-fly by VisualEdge's ObjectBridge
> (a COM-CORBA bridge).
>
> Regards,
> David.
>
> > Currently I am generating ASCII flat file, FTPing it to Windows and
> > importing it in Excel.
> >
> > To by-pass this cumbersome process I would like to generate .xls file (on
> > the fly), store it on server (Unix) and give a URL for viewing/downloading
> > it from browser.
> >
> > So, I would like to know is it possible to generate .xls (Excel files) from
> > Servlets. If so, any pointers to that info is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Venkat
> >
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