Re: [PLUG] OT: MS Office compatible Java programs

["W. Chris Shank" <chris.shank@acetechgroup.com>]

I found the poi API also - thanks. I was hoping to find a project that
used teh tool to write a Lite Word/Excel editor that could be launched as
an applet.

I feel an itch that needs scratching.


Kyle R . Burton said:
>> Anyone know of any Java programs (or applets even) that can read
>> (write?) Doc and Xls formats? I'm googling and coming up a little shy.
>> Any Open Source projects doing this?
>
> The Apache Jakarta Project (part of which was already mentioned) has a
> sub-project called POI:
>
>   http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/index.html
>
> That has sub-components that can read and write XLS and DOC files from
> Java.  I've used the Excel writer at work so we could generate and mail
> XLS spreadsheets from a web-application - running entirely under Linux.
>
> The bulk of the software in the project is
> Apache/mod_perl/Pas/Postgres.  At the time we started the project there
> were no Perl modules that could read/write XLS files, so we used Java
> for that one part of the application.  It started out, and remains, a
> completely open-source solution.
>
>
>
> Kyle
>
>
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