How to edit and update a word document present in a physical location,through Java?

[Riyaz Mohd]

How to edit and update a word document using Java,i have a scenario where i should be able to open the existing document and when i edit and save it, a duplicate copy of the document should be created and saved,is it possible through java ??

[Bear Bibeault]

I guess the first obvious question is why not just use Word?

[Riyaz Mohd]

I need to update an existing word template and save it,after saving the word doc,an event sholud be fired and one duplicate copy of it the template sholud be created,is it possible through plain java ??

[Ulf Dittmer]

"Duplicating" sounds like a mere file copy; is that correct? If so, that's easy enough to accomplish using just about any programming language.

While I'm not sure why you'd want to do this programmatically instead of manually (maybe you can provide some detail on that), I advise first to investigate using RTF files as the templates. Being text, they're much easier to customize programmatically than actual Word files.

[fred rosenberger]

IS it possible with Java - probably.

SHOULD it be done with Java - probably NOT.

Java is a tool. A powerful and flexible one, but in the end, still a tool. It may not always be the best tool for the job at hand. My guess is that for something like this, VB may be a better way to go, but I am not an expert on such things.