Calling OpenOffice Calc from Java?

[CGuidice]

Can I call Calc from Java from my own Java program? I would like to use the charting capabilities built into Calc with reports generated with Java. Any information is very mush appreciated.

Thanks

[Guest]

This thread may help:

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=698

[guidice]

Thanks for the link. This is helpful.

[guidice]

In case others are trying to call OpenOffice applications from within Java, below is an example. Before running this Java code, I created a file in my C:\Temp\ called Test.xls.



import java.lang.*;
import java.io.*;

public class RuntimeExecTest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
String[] callAndArgs = { "C:\\Program Files\\OpenOffice.org1.0.2 \\program\\ooocalc.exe", "C:\\temp\\Test.xls" };
try {
Process child = rt.exec(callAndArgs);
child.waitFor();
System.out.println("Process exit code is: " + child.exitValue());
}
catch(IOException e) {
System.err.println( "IOException starting process!");
}
catch(InterruptedException e) {
System.err.println("Interrupted waiting for process!");
}
}
}