Here is a brief tutorial to provide details on how to generate Word document using Java without Interop. There are a lot of scenarios where we have to process a Word file without using MS Word, Interop, or Office Automation. This tutorial will help you to create Word document using Java without Interop and save it as DOCX using a few lines of code.
Steps to Generate Word Document using Java without Interop
- Add Aspose.Words library using Maven repository to create a Word file in Java without Interop
- Add references to Document and DocumentBuilder classes
- Instantiate the Document class object
- Initialize DocumentBuilder class object for accessing different document elements
- Add some sample bold text in the newly created document
- Save the resultant Word file as DOCX containing a sample formatted text
In these steps, we create a Word document and then use DocumentBuilder class to access different elements in the document for writing text and applying some formatting. After writing some sample text, we save this output file as DOCX however you can save it to any other Word file format.
Code to Create a Word File in Java without Interop
This code creates a blank Word document and adds some bold text however you can perform all the advanced operations on this document that are supported by MS Word, like working with fonts, headers and footers, tables, styles, themes, sections, comments, and many more. Similarly, you can save the output Word file as a physical file on a disc as well as save it to some memory buffer to return to a browser or save it as a blob in a database for later processing.
In this tutorial, we learned how does Java generate Word document without Interop. However, if you need to update an existing Word file, refer to the article on how to create table in a word document with Java.