Thanks Tiffany, I have to kick myself for the dumbness/laziness about this(not reading the "core servlets"
! A "single line of code" could have changed my thought process for the problem at hand.
Why i mean is that i was really thinking to resolve in terms of including 'javaexcelapi' as a means to generate the excel sheet and thereby formatting it. But, as i go through for the 2nd time with my google-search, i found that the latest excel recognizes the html table and we have to only work around the html table generation to get the ouput in excel...
Now, my problem is w.r.t the html table. I am generating this table dynamically (like incl. jsp scriptlets...etc) The excel doesn't recognize if i put "response.setContentType=..." while i generate the html table.
This seems to have come up in one of the earlier threads, but i couldn't get an answer...
Did any one has found a solution to this kind...pls. share...
vijay
[ August 08, 2002: Message edited by: vijay sinha ]