Creating Office Documents on the Server
SoftArtisans, a well-respected software company that specializes in server-side components has an interesting offering for those developing Microsoft Office solutions on server. They have a product called SoftArtisans OfficeWriter that allows you to create Word and Excel documents on server without having to install Microsoft Office on the server.
It is a cross-platform product available for J2EE, ASP and ASP.NET. On the web site company claims "the only product on the market that fully maintains all of Excel's and Word's formatting/styles and advanced features such as VBA and macros.?
Is not an inexpensive product. It?s priced at $2795. They also have two other versions that support just Word or Excel respectively priced at $1500 each.
Learn more about SoftArtisans OfficeWriter at officewriter.softartisans.com