Contact: Tel: 2726 - New Media Systems, 1st Floor South, Queens Walk Creating msword document is very much an Intranet application issue as you can never guarantee that your client has even the MS Office installed! MS Word is microsoft specific. If your application IS an Intranet applciation, then there is quite a few ways of creating a MS word document in web page, using either Java, JavaScript or VBScript.. Of all those options, VB Script is probably the easiest approach. This is because VBScript is Microsoft specific and therefore is designed to handle ActiveX document very easily. JavaScript is also not too difficult but you need more recent version. To do it in Java on the server, your server will have to be on Window platform (NT) where you can generate Java wrappers from the msword.tlb file installed when you install MS Office. It is however a very clumsy way of doing it (my personal opinion) and should be avoided whenever you can. In all of these options above, you would usually design some word document templates with some variables predefined, which can be replaced at run-time with real values. VB script and Javascript can all easily manipulate these variables in the templates. Cheers, Charles ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
