zhouping wrote:
I'm a new user of OpenOffice. What I want is a applet that can display
spreadsheet document that generated in the application server. After reading
the document and browsing samples, I find nothing useful. I'm still very
confused. Does somebody can help me?
Currently what i think it is what you might want to do might not really
be possible in exactly that way that you would like to have it.
1.) A view in a small applet that can visualize a full featured office
process running on an application server (including full office
functionallity) was once possible with SunOne Webtop from Sun, but this
product is no longer available.
2.) With OOoBean it is possible to embeed an OpenOffice.org Window into
a java applet or java application but that also requires a full
OpenOffice.org installation on the client.
3.) What you can do is to utilize OpenOffice.org and it´s API on the
application server to generate a spreadsheet document.
4.) What you can also do is to convert that to HTML using the API for
poor Visualisation on the client but without any editing capabilities
and ability to change and recalculate on the client of course.
5.) For simple documents what you can also do is to use XML/XSLT
libraries plus documentation about the OpenDocument FileFormat (ODF)
plus some programming skills to generate a spreadsheet document without
using an OpenOffice.org process but there you don´t have the possibilty
to caculate formulas.
you can use 3 or 6 together with either 4 or 2. There should be samples
in the codesnippet section and developer guide that might be useful for
doing so.
You can also go for an approach of using something like a mixture of 5
and 3 on the application server: that would mean using XML/XSLT libs to
generate an initial document and opening that in OpenOffice.org via the
API for calculation of included formulars.
The upcoming ODF toolkit will offer additional possibilities on the
server side.
Kind regards,
Bernd
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