I want to create a restfull webservice that reads Excel,MPP files and gives me a list of beans for my application. Currently we are using jxl for excel reading and mpxj for mpp. Is there any way i could generalize a file reading service so that it could be reused .
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2Could you expand a little of what you mean by "generalize", perhaps makes some notes which describe in more detail what the service might do? – Jon Iles May 14 '12 at 08:15
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Agreed, you should be more specific. "that reads"... from where ? "generalize" what ? Just as a hint, at work we use a lot what we call "watch folders", i.e. Java apps that monitor a specific shared folder and do processing whenever a file is dropped (using JNotify). So you could implement such a watch folder and whenever a excel file is dropped, process it and send whatever information to your web service for instance. – Eric Nicolas Jun 11 '14 at 22:06