I have a potential client who has an excel spreadsheet they'd like to make into a "proper" application, delivered via a web page. Problem is that they are protective of the formulas used in the spreadsheet and don't want them running on the client (I may talk to them about that again). As far as I know the only way to make use of what they have is to build a Java calculation engine that runs on the server and takes inputs from the Flex front end and returns the outputs.
I'm no Excel specialist so as far as I know there's no alternative to taking excel out of the equation for a web delivered solution. Any other ideas? Paul
