You mean like Formula one from Tidestone.....?
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----- Forwarded by dIon Gillard/Multitask Consulting/AU on 08/01/00 02:31 -----
Re: Generating .xls files from Servlets
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).
