Want to pop-up business errors to user

Question

Hi, using struts framework, i am displaying some business errors in a JSP in tabular format. I want to change this and show the errors to the user in MS word document which opens in i'net explorer. User gets a pop-up to open or save it.
Please advice some approach to this.

Answer 1

My honest advice is: don't bother. This is an incredibly unusual way of doing things, and although there are people who argue that "breaking the rules is good" and that just because something is unusual, doesn't mean we shouldn't do it, one thing you don't want to do is have a UI behave in an unusual manner. Nobody expects a web app to behave like this, and if yours does, all they'll remember is that it's awkward to use. This is a user interface, your job when building a UI is to consider the user, first and foremost. Don't surprise them and don't make them do unnecessary tasks. People won't want to have to open Word to see information they could previously just see on a web page. Leave it as it is, and if you want to, provide a link that generates a Word document (or a PDF, or whatever) from the data on the web page, should your users want it