Reading up on Eclipse
"This list is compiled from a variety of sources and is intended for anyone who wishes to find centralized reading material about Eclipse. One of the biggest challenges new Eclipse users face is where to find the right information for a task. This article provides a small step in solving that problem."
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Re: Do you have SWING Integrator experience?
I finally got a reply from a support representative from SWING Software and it appears that SWING Integrator doesn't support writing formulas to Microsoft Excel. I think this is a real shame shame since it restricts its use dramatically or at least makes some functionality very difficult to implement. Of cause there might be a valid reason for this restriction.
Anyways I reimplemented the needed functionality by doing all the formatting in LotusScript. Apart from the solution being a lot longer (more lines of code) and taking more time to implement I solved the problem which is what really counts.