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Jeff Higgins - 22 Aug 2007 14:41 GMT

Several recent posts concerning the use of Java
for manipulating Microsoft Office "documents"
prompted me to wonder when I would want to use
Java for these types of tasks. I began a web
search with "Java" "Microsoft" as a starting point
and within minutes discovered a whole new, to me,
world of wonder. It seems that Java/Windows
interoperability is a huge, highly financed, area
of endeavor.

Sun Java Desktop System
Microsoft .NET and Java/J2EE Interoperability
Sun Project Tango
Office Open XML Formats
Web Services

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kaldrenon - 22 Aug 2007 18:24 GMT

> Several recent posts concerning the use of Java
> for manipulating Microsoft Office "documents"
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> Office Open XML Formats
> Web Services

There's also the Apache POI project, which I think is what most of the
posts you mention relate to.

http://poi.apache.org/

No matter your opinion of Microsoft (or of Java, for that matter),
both are fairly ubiquitous, and a lack of interoperability would be
disappointing at best, and crippling in some worse cases.

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Roedy Green - 23 Aug 2007 00:53 GMT

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:41:44 -0400, "Jeff Higgins"
<oohiggins@yahoo.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

> It seems that Java/Windows
>interoperability is a huge, highly financed, area
>of endeavor.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/poi.html
for some projects. If you find any real gold, please pass it on for
that entry.

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