Hi,
You can make files named with .txs extention to be associated as excel,
by configuring winXX ..
then your servlet should be seen as "http://../sometable.txs"
urls by browsers, so their response data will be saved in files with that
specific extention.
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It is easy to generate a plain text table, with one row on each line,
and TAB separated columns - a format accepted by Excel as "tabular".
You may try extra tricks, like using your own-declared ContentType
and configure user's browser to automagically
load table in Excel window when the servlet sends database-generated tables.
For "real" Excel spreadsheets generated from servlet code you'll need
not only to know their specific Excel format, but also Microsoft's
agreement - not sure about that, read their license agreements..
Cezar
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Schmidt, Allen J. wrote:
> Is there an easy way to generate a table of data with a servlet and then
> have a Windows file save dialog pop up and save the table to an Excel
> spreadsheet?
Not really, the servlet needs to send the table as an spreadsheet format
file, wich can't be converted (browsers save files unchanged).
>
> Thanks
>
> Allen Schmidt
> Northern VA Community College
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