How to do letter/report generation in Java....URGENT!!

Question

Java has been choosen to do my project, but one of my sub-part is letter/report generating. i have the letters(templete) in Microsoft Word and Word has the 'merge' document function which means that i can generate the letters by choosing the item from a specified table in Access database. e.g. the Name, Address, Date, and so on in the letter can be choosed from the database to fill in. Thus, i can generate more letters by just choosing to who i would like to send rather than typing all this same letter in routine. my problem is how to do such thing in Java. Please do not ask me to transfer to other programming language because i have do the other part in Java. Or maybe is there any suggestion for me to auto-generate letters??....Please help....is urgent!!!! i am kindly waiting for your reply. i got 1 reply that asking me to choose Word macro, may i know how??

Answer 1

You need not use an applet to write an HTML file, any application file will do fine, actually applications may be prefered due to system security and file creation. Basically the html files are just text files using HTML. Look at any book on HTML and you will be able to get the style and form down along with the syntax.
As for calling MS word, do a search on the web for a product called JPrint. It is done by a company called Neva and they also have a product called "coroutine". It is coroutine that you want. Coroutine is a native level interface for Java to Comm. The docs that come with coroutine should be saficient to get you going on the project.