How to call an Excel VBA Macro from Java Code?

Question

I need to generate an Excel sheet from the data fetched from a database through Java. For that, I need to call some VBA Macro functions while generating that Excel. Can anyb

Answer 1

If you can't use JACOB or COM4J you can make a Visual Basic Script and run the script from your Java program.

To create the script open notepad and write something like this:

Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set objWorkbook = objExcel.Workbooks.Open("myExcel.xlsm")

objExcel.Application.Run "myExcel.xlsm!MyMacroName" 
objExcel.ActiveWorkbook.Close

objExcel.Application.Quit
WScript.Quit

Save it as myVBS.vbs and you can call it like this from your Java code:

cmd = "you_path\\myVBS.vbs";
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);