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Re: Generate Word-readable documents with Java?

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lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> wrote in
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> On Jul 12, 3:59 pm, Ten Blade <ten.bl...@tenblade.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to generate a moderately complex document (text, graphics,
>> table 
> s,
>> bulleted lists) with Java code that can be read by Microsoft Word
>> users. It's not important to me whether these document is in the
>> traditional 'doc' format or something else like .xml.
>>
>> I've been researching via Google and there was some buzz about
>> WordProcessingML several years ago but very little since. POI, which
>> has been under development for years, is apparently _STILL_ too
>> immature to b 
> e
>> much use.
>>
>> I've been away from Java for a few years and haven't kept up with
>> most of it. How are Java developers generating Word-readable
>> documents these days 
> ?
>> I don't want to waste my time learning a technique or technology that
>> was 
>  a
>> fad for a couple of weeks in 2007 and would prefer a well-regarded
>> widely 
> -
>> used approach if such a beast exists.
>>
> 
> 1 - Word can read text documents just fine.
> 
> POI works great.  I don't know why you denigrate it.
> http://poi.apache.org/
> 
I've never used it. But, based on http://poi.apache.org/hwpf/index.html, 
POI sounds rather immature so far. For example: "HWPF is still in early 
development." And then there was this: "At the moment we unfortunately do 
not have someone taking care for HWPF and fostering its development. What 
we need is someone to stand up, take this thing under his hood as his 
baby and push it forward. Ryan Ackley, who put a lot of effort into HWPF, 
is no longer on board, so HWPF is an orphan child waiting to be adopted."

But maybe that information is out-of-date and doesn't reflect the reality 
today.
 
> It's what Java developers are using to generate Word-readable
> documents these deays.  It's well regarded and widely used.
>
Okay, looks like believing the developer team was not the right thing to 
do....
 
> You can also use the Java interface to Open Office, which creates
> ZIPped XML files in ODF (Open Document Format), which I think I heard
> Word supports these days.
> 
> OO also exports to RTF and .doc formats.
>
I've been messing with OO a bit but couldn't get the "Hello World" 
program to work and couldn't get any help on my problem from the OO 
forums so I'm inclined to try something different....
 
> --
> Lew
> 





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Ten-Blade 

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Generate Word-readable documents with Java? Ten Blade <ten.blade@tenblade.com> - 2011-07-12 22:59 +0000
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