OLE Automation from Java (MS Word and Excel)
843829Oct 7 2004 — edited Aug 26 2005Hello,
I want to insert the data from my Java application into a MS Word document with bookmarks/fields that have to be filled, format the text, run a macro, save and print the document. Similar for MS Excel.
What I have gathered so far: The JavaBean-ActiveX bridge is for treating JavaBeans as ActiveX components, not the other way around. So I have to write native methods that access Word's COM - Component Object Model. Well, I don't "speak" C very well. I have found three commercial and one open source software that can do this:
- Java2Com by Neva Object Technology
- Jacob by Dan Adler
- J-Integra by Intrinsyc
- jacoZoom
Does anyone have experience with any of these and could tell me which ones are good and which ones are not so good? Or is there a completely different solution to doing this?
TIA,
Monika.