Re: [enhydra] Fwd: Can Enhydra work with legacy MS Word document store

[Stefan Armbruster <sarmbruster@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

I don't know any open source java framework dealing with MS Word
directly. As long as you need to read and write Excel, Jakarta POI is a
good solution. AFAIK Jakarta POI has plans to support Word too, but that
seems to be in early stages, not ready for production usage.

Another idea for handling Word documents is the usage of OpenOffice. You
can run OpenOffice in a server mode and use an API to process the
documents. The OO SDK will help
(http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sdk/). Since OO has filters
for reading and writing Word docs, this should do the job.

Regards,
Stefan

Am Die, den 03.08.2004 schrieb Mathieu Peltier um 9:43:
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> Subject: Can Enhydra work with legacy MS Word document store
> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 02:52:13 +0200
> Author: Chris Miller
> 
> Hi Folk,
> 
> I have a considerable investment in MS Word documents and templates.  I
> need to improve my current professional office management system.  I'm
> trying to find the best starting point and enhydra might be it, if I can
> learn how to do a fairly simple thing -- store, serve, modify, retreive MS
> Word documents.  Part of the modify part includes mail merge to populate
> fields in the templates with values in a database.
> 
> So, am I barking up the wrong tree?
> 
> Chris.
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