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Seephor
Seephor

Reputation: 1732

How can I Serialize Microsoft Office objects in Java?

I am trying to find a way to serialize MS Office objects in some way so I can send them to other Java clients without the need of the actual file.

For example, I have one client with a MS Word Document within object A. I can already write out and represent object A as an XML, but I want to now have object A's XML contain a serialization of the MS Word Document.

Is this possible with any existing libraries? I am looking at Apache POI, but have not used it for this purpose. I have only used it to read and write Office objects.

EDIT: See the answer I posted for how I was able to achieve this by using Base64 encode and decode.

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Answers (1)

Seephor
Seephor

Reputation: 1732

Credit to Gagravarr for the idea, I ended up using Apache commons to base64 encode and decode the file. I followed the example in this link.

http://blog.icodejava.com/248/how-to-base64-encode-or-base64-decode-a-file-in-java-using-apache-commons-codec/

Upvotes: 1

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