Excel file generation using seam excel taglib

[pbadiger]

Can anyone help me with an example to export the data to an excel file.

[nickarls]

1. Download 2.1.0.BETA1


2. Build the excel example


3. Deploy the example to an AS


4. Run the example


5. Examine the example


6. Modify the example


7. Repeat as neccessary.

If you need further help, give specific info what you did, what you expected and what you got.

[danielc.roth]

4½. Read the manual, might be a good idea too.

[mrfarhankhan]

Hi! Can I use the seam excel and pdf libs with JBoss. Actually working on an application with following technologies JBoss4.2.2.GA, EJB, JSF and I want pdf and excel support for my datatables.

I tried adding jboss-seam-excel.jar and jxl.jar but when I start JBoss I receive the following error.

javax.faces.FacesException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: No ClassLoaders found for: org.jboss.seam.excel.ui.UIGroupColumns

Also, I find the following hirearchy in the downloaded lib org.jboss.seam.excel.exporter.excelExporter.export which is different from the one you have mentioned in another thread. Note that I wasn't able to download the libs from the link you mentioned and I downloaded the entire jboss-seam-2.1.0.CR1.zip.

Thanks in advance.
Farhan !

[nickarls]

Looks like a classloader problem, build and run the examples/excel sample application.
EAR or WAR? The exporter has an alias so it can be referenced in other ways, too as I recall. Again, start with the example and reverse-engineer.

[mrfarhankhan]

Thanks for the quick response. The problem is that am not using the seam framework. I just want to use the pdf and excel functionality for my richfaces datatable.

[danielc.roth]

Won't work. Excel and PDF-lib depends on seam core stuff.

[nickarls]

Well, the subject says the seam excel taglib, from where one might assume that there is a dependency on the seam framework itself. I would be surprised if you could just rip out a part and use it like that.

But do report back if you get it to work somehow.

[mrfarhankhan]

Ok. Do I have any other option ?

[danielc.roth]

I think it might be hard... You could try to checkout excel/pdf code from seam svn nd import it into your project. Then You probably need rewrite some code to get it to work. In particular DocumentStore and DocumentStoreServlet. I think it's doable, but might take a couple of hours....

[mrfarhankhan]

Thanks.

[jenkinsjava]

Will this functionality work with Seam 2.0?

[nickarls]

It is 2.1-only