How to launch an openoffice excel document ?

Question

Hi, I have a method to create an excel file:
public void createExcelFile(String fileName, Long Id){
File file = new File(fileName);
FileWriter writer = null;
try{
catch (IOException e) {
}

Answer 1

Ok.. so now lets stick to this thread. This is the code:
public void createExcelFile(String fileName, String Id){
File file = new File (fileName + ".ods");
FileWriter writer = null;
try{
writer = new FileWrite(file);
String data = "<TABLE BORDER=\"2\">";
data += getData(Id) // other methods to pull data from database
data += "</TABLE>";
writer.write(data);
writer.flush();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printstacktrace();
finally {
try{
writer.close
}catch (IOException e) {
e.printstacktrace();
and u mentioned abt using Desktop.open(name);
is Desktop another class i have to import?
U also mentioned
Edit: And that is not a spreadsheet of any kind. That is (at least the beginning of) an HTML table. Now, it might be that one of the files in an ods document (which is a zipfile) may contain something like that, but that is not the only thing it contains, and certainly the ods file is not a simple text file.
You need to Google for an API for OpenOffice (I am fairly certain there are some, and one may even be delivered with OpenOffice). "
the .ods file is an open office spreadsheet... the above code creates the file perfectly and I am able to open it seperately. I juz need to open it automatically with the program...