Generate dynamic word document from jsp

[Irene Loos]

I need to generate word document which will contain some dynamic information (address, name, etc). Ideally my jsp page will have link or button. When users will click on this link it will generate word document. Anybody done this before?

[William Brogden]

There is an open-source project called "POI" for a Java API for generating/reading all the major MS file formats.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/poi
I don't think it can do everything that can appear in a Word document, but it may be able to do a simple one.
Bill

[Bear Bibeault]

Irene, do a search through the forums and I believe you will find a number of other threads that have discussed this very topic.
One of the issues discussed was that it might be easier to generate RTF (Rich Text Format; a text-based markup format which Word understands) rather than an actual proprietary-format Word document.
hth,
bear