Its not recommended but it does work! We managed to get MS Office to kick out around 10-15 documents per second on a single IIS server running ASP.net without much optimization. If you wanted to go crazy you could just load-balance the servers and kick out way more docs.
We tried to use a Java lib for Office docs but it was a pain in the neck. We had some very specific requirements for embedding an ActiveX control into a document and the OSS libs just weren't going to cut it. If your volume requirements aren't too high, I would just start with interoping with MS Office.
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Its not recommended but it does work! We managed to get MS Office to kick out around 10-15 documents per second on a single IIS server running ASP.net without much optimization. If you wanted to go crazy you could just load-balance the servers and kick out way more docs.
We tried to use a Java lib for Office docs but it was a pain in the neck. We had some very specific requirements for embedding an ActiveX control into a document and the OSS libs just weren't going to cut it. If your volume requirements aren't too high, I would just start with interoping with MS Office.