Exporting jsp tables to excel, word, pdf

Question

Can anyone suggest me any library/jar files which I can use to export my table to excel/pdf/word.

Please tell me if there is any library by which I can create reports in jsp.

Answer 1

It should also be mentioned that you can export tables to Excel simply by outputting an HTML table, and setting response-type to application/vnd.ms-excel. No external libraries whatsoever needed.

Something like this:

<%@ page language="java" session="true" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tld/response.tld" prefix="res" %>
<res:setHeader name="Content-Type">application/vnd.ms-excel</res:setHeader>
<res:setHeader name="Content-Disposition">attachment; filename=excel-test.xls</res:setHeader>

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>foo</td>
        <td>bar</td>
    </tr>
</table>

Note: this answer is meant to supplement this and this as it covers only one of the cases (Excel).