As long as you are running on Windows and stand alone - that is to say that you do not want to run Visio on a server - then it is possible to use OLE/COM to manipulate Visio using Java code.
There are a variety of options open to you including SWT, Jacob and others I am sure. What you actually do is create a running instance of the Vision application, 'connect' to that and then execute VBA like commands. Almost anything that you can do with Vision can be accomplished in the way - in effect, you are 'running' macros. I have no experience of manipulating Vision like this but have used OLE to work with Excel and Word from Java code. There are problems - speed, the fact that the application were not intended to be used in this manner, etc, but it is possible should all else fail. --- On Tue, 12/30/08, Ashok Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ashok Kumar <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Visio File Extraction To: "POI Users List" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 4:05 AM Hi Nick, Thanks again for your response.. I will get back to you with the vsdump output and VSD generation part. Thanks, Ashok. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Nick Burch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Ashok Kumar wrote: > >> The link to vsdump in the POI page goes to 404 page, upon googling I >> landed on to a unix package (is vsdump a linux utililty ?).. If that is it, >> I will try to run that over my files and let you know the output. >> > > vsdump is a linux utility, yes. It's the only other open source project for > visio files I know of. I'll fix the link on the website in a day or two, > when I can get my development machine online again > > I would also like to know if there are way to create a VSD file using java >> ? I understand from the project page that it is in the road map..... is that >> something still being developed? >> > > It's not possible right now, alas. I'd like to add support, but it'd be a > lot of work, and no-one's interested in sponsoring it. If you're keen to > work on it though, do let me know and I'll try to help you get started, work > on it etc. > > > Nick > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
