Re: Viewing word and xls document through Websphere 3.5.6

["Franco Biaggi" <fbiaggi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
Java and JSP are platform independent, M$ product not,
I think that there no good solutions to solve your problem, maybe a propietary 
solution.
You could convert it to PDF.

Ciao.

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:22:43 -0400, Gibson.Stephen wrote:

>Greetings,

>We have a web application running under Websphere 3.5.6 that allows a user
>to upload image files (actually any file) to the IFS.  We then present a
>thumbnail of the image in a JSP and allow users to click on the image to
>view the full image.  This works OK.  The question is when we allow users to
>upload MS Word or Excel documents, and reference these using an A href on
>the JSP,  the document appears in the browser but displaying all of the
>literal word and excel commands embedded in the document.  Is there some set
>up in Websphere that allows it to interpert MS Word or Excel metadata?  How
>do you embed a link into a JSP to allow users to view Word or Excel
>documents?

>Thanks for any assistance


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