Editing from Microsoft Word

Hi 

There is Apache POI library for read,writ,create and manage MS-Word documents using Java.

Link doe Tutorial :- http://www.tutorialspoint.com/apache_poi_word/apache_poi_word_document.htm

//Example ti create a blank Document

import java.io.File;import java.io.FileOutputStream;import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument;public class CreateDocument{public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception{//Blank DocumentXWPFDocument document= new XWPFDocument();//Write the Document in file systemFileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(new File("createdocument.docx"));document.write(out);out.close();System.out.println("createdocument.docx written successully");}}

Now just create a OSGi sling service or component and use above library to read,writ,create and manage MS-Word documents.

I hope this would help you.

Thanks and Regards

Kautuk Sahni

Thanks Kunal and Jitendra for replying.

I used WebDav before for uploading a number of images, css and jS files from the Windows file system to AEM.

So, here, the user creates the word doc on the file system and uploads to AEM using WebDav.

When updates to the document are required, he makes edits to the word doc on the file system and uploads to AEM again.

Thus, we are not considering incorporating Word editor within AEM.

Is it what you suggest?

Also, is the upload after edits automatic or manual?

Is there a way to consider Word editor within AEM?

Thanks,

Rama.

@Rama,

Agreeing with @Kunal and I think that is the only thing possible (Using WebDav to upload updated docs).

@Kunal,

One quick question, if we upload the document in the same path (from where it was downloaded) with the same name, will the uploaded file be a new file or will it override the existing file?. 

Jitendra

I guess the requirement means that the users should be able to use the Microsoft Word editor for editing the word documents which lives in the CMS. The operation of creating new word document and editing a new word document should be possible from within the editor. They would not like to login into AEM and download the asset for editing and then uploading it back whenever they are done. 

And for this requirement you can explore using the CRX webdav support feature - https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/crx/2-3/how_to/webdav_access.html