Zero Client Design - allowing user to create document like a word document

Hi All,
I am planning to develop an internet based application. How can i allow user to start creating a document (Let say Word document). User does not have Microsoft Word installed on his/her client computer. my application offers create new document.
User clicks "create new" link on the page. Is it possible to lunch the word in create new page to let user to create document and at the end click Save link on the page to save it on to server?
Is it possible to call the word application from the sever?
Thanks
Sam

I've never tried it and there may be alternative ways of doing it, but I would think the only way you can provide formatting tools - without recreating each tool - is to use an Applet.
What you're trying to do is create a document object on the server, have the user select an command on the client side (such as underlining text), have the client pass the command back to the server, and echo the results of that operation, right?
It would be incredibly awkward and impractical to do that through a conventional stateless HTTP medium such as JSPs, PHP or JavaScript. It may have been done before, I'm just not aware of any attempts to do so.
Are you willing to consider alternative third-party solutions, open source or not? Or is this something that you explicitly have to code?

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