Open excel sheets in separate windows by clicking link.

Question

Hi,
I have a web page which has a link. When user clicks on the link, a servlet is invoked that creates an excel sheet and opens it in MS-Excel. I used "res.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");" to achieve this.
But every time I click the link it opens up the sheet on the same MS-Excel window. It doesn't open up the excel sheet in new other window.
Now here is my requirement: Whenever user clicks on the link, a new MS-Excel window should open up containing the excel sheet. So if user clicks the link 3 times, then 3 separate window should open up each containing its own excel sheet.
Can anyone help me out in achieving this?
Thanks in advance...

Answer 1

Hi, try this
In JSP/HTML
Export To Excel
In Servlet
response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");
response.setHeader("Content-disposition","attachment; filename=MyProjectExport.xls" );
In web.xml
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>excelservlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>myPackage.ExcelServlet</servlet-class>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>excelservlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/MyProjectExport.xls</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>Assuming I haven't made any typos obfuscating the real packages, it
should work. I think the step you are missing is to add the servlet
mapping so that the servlet name is MyProjectExport.xls
In the example above, I've made my servlet name match the filename in
the Content-disposition, though in my real application it deosn't seem to
matter that they don't match. In the html, you link to the name of the
servlet, rather than the filename, but if you name them the same, I
guess it won't matter.
Arth