Opening Excel sheet from server

Question

Hi I have one requirement to open Excel Sheet.
The Excel sheet is residing in a directory parallel to WEB-INF. I am using Jboss server in Linux. in UI whenever I click on link I have to open Excel sheet from the server. Before opening Excel sheet I have to fill with some data. i am using JSP/Servlets .
Can any one help me on this?
Guru

Answer 1

this piece of code is just open a xsl file with writing some data on the file
it may be helpful for u .i am giving only logic.
import java.util.*;
import java.io.* ;
import java.text.* ;
public class a{
     // Main method
     public static void main (String args[])
          // Stream to write file
          //File file;
          FileWriter fout;
          String TimeStamp;
          try
          // Open an output stream
          Calendar currentdate= Calendar.getInstance();
               int currmonth=currentdate.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1;
               String strMonth="";
               if(currmonth<10)
                    strMonth="0"+currmonth;
               String wbname="Equifax"+strMonth+currentdate.get(Calendar.YEAR)+".xls";
               System.out.println(wbname);
          BufferedWriter outfile = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(wbname));
               //file=new File(filename);
               fout = new FileWriter (wbname);
          // Print a line of text
          TimeStamp = new java.util.Date().toString();
          //String filename1=file.getName();
          outfile.write(" Apply ");
          // Close our output stream
          outfile.close();          
          // Catches any error conditions
          catch (IOException e)
               System.err.println ("Unable to write to file");
               System.exit(-1);
}