Chapter27.Integrating with Microsoft Office

Chapter 27. Integrating with Microsoft Office

IN THIS CHAPTER

Document Properties 835

Microsoft Jet 841

Apache POI 843

HTML, XML, and CSS 848

Automation 856

ColdFusion applications can integrate with Microsoft Office to provide advanced document functionality not available with traditional HTML output. Developers can take advantage of these features to provide users with editable documents, leverage features of the Office applications, import data from other applications, and produce specialized complex reports. This chapter describes five techniques available to ColdFusion developers to provide Microsoft Office integration:

• Document Properties

• The Microsoft Jet database engine

• The Apache POI Java classes

• HTML, XML, and CSS

• Automation