MS Word APIs for JAVA

[gautam_parida]

Hello All,

Is there a way by which i can call APIs from Java programs to generate and manipulate documents in MS Word.

We need to generate reports , replace bookmarks/placeholders with values from database, create versions and merge versions etc.

Are there any APIs available to do this directly from JAVA . We would not like to use any 3rd party programs to do this.

best regards,

gautam

[Former Member]

Hi Gautam,

there is a apache-project, but I don't know if it already has published any releases. Take a look at:

http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/index.html

thomas

[Former Member]

You could use a Java-Com bridge to access MS-Word. Check out e.g. http://j-integra.intrinsyc.com/.

Cheers,

Heiko

[detlev_beutner]

Hi Gautam,

for an overview see http://www.geocities.com/marcoschmidt.geo/java-libraries-word.html

You'll see that this is supported very, very rarely. The POI sub-project is - by it's aims - closest to your needs, but only the excel-part has reached something like robustness.

An additional possibility is to use the Java API of OpenOffice. On the one this needs OpenOffice installed (disadvantage), on the other hand it's definitely the best support for Word format existing as Java API (advantage). Anyhow, a disadvantage is that it's all but intuitive...

Hope it helps

Detlev

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[Former Member]

You can do it all in XML.

MS Word 2003 can load from XML, and save to XML. The documents can contain rich formatting, images, fonts, styles, all the Word stuff you are accustomed to.

A working example is here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/dotnetinterop/archive/2005/03/29/403331.aspx