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Writing <br />
&lt;%@ page contentType=&quot;application/v<wbr />nd.ms-exce<wbr />l&quot; %&gt;<br />
on the top of ur JSP page transfers the whole output of the JSP page to an excel file.<br />
On the downside it does not offer u any flexibility in manipulating the contents of the excel sheet. <br />
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Writing
<%@ page contentType="application/vnd.ms-excel" %>
on the top of ur JSP page transfers the whole output of the JSP page to an excel file.
On the downside it does not offer u any flexibility in manipulating the contents of the excel sheet.



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if u want control over the data then <br />
<br />
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/" rel="ugc nofollow">http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/</a><br />
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is a good option.
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if u want control over the data then

http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ [http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/]

is a good option.

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thanks. it works great. <br />
contentType would be sufficient for me.<br />
i don't need control over the data.
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thanks. it works great.
contentType would be sufficient for me.
i don't need control over the data.

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I have a intranet based web application in JSP deployed on tomcat. i want that when the user clicks on a particular link the output of that jsp page should be displayed to the user in a excel file. <br />
is it possible to do this? 
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I have a intranet based web application in JSP deployed on tomcat. i want that when the user clicks on a particular link the output of that jsp page should be displayed to the user in a excel file. 
is it possible to do this? 

transfer output to excel

JavaServer Pages (JSP) allow the development of dynamically generated web pages. It uses the Java programming language; JSP pages are translated into servlets at runtime, with each servlet being cached and reused until the JSP is modified. JSP allows Java code to be interleaved with static web markup content, so the resulting page can be compiled and executed on the server to deliver the content.