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Ankit Kansal
Ankit Kansal

Reputation: 84

Open Microsoft Excel File Using A Web Browser At Desktop Location

I am developing a application for automating task and The Server i am using is Tomcat Apache It's based on java. In between my code execution i have to open a Microsoft Excel At Desktop Level. I have tried Command Line Execution as Well as Desktop Class from AWT. Both of them works when i execute my app from command line but both of them will not respond when job runs from Web Browser.

Any Comment would be appreciable...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 641

Answers (1)

Andrew Thompson
Andrew Thompson

Reputation: 168825

Only an applet on the client side could use the Desktop class and it would need full trust to do so. Further, using it would not guarantee either IE or Excel here. An XLS file would be handled by Open Office.

And that is 'a good thing' because that is my choice and should not be meddled with by a web-app. that thinks it knows better.

Upvotes: 1

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