Excel input

Hi,
I am writing in reference to Tim Dexter's articles regarding using Excel as a datasource (here: http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/2007/03/14 and here: http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/2007/03/13).
Is there any recommention you could make as for how to call a java class from a macro?
Secondly, I am curious to know how the 'xlsdata' servlet is deployed on the server.
Thanks in advance!

if your file is a text file and you are reading it from a client you can use the oracle forms TEXT_IO package.

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