Generate a excel using java and create a macro in the excel

NitKrish :

I have a java code that takes data from MongoDB and later creates an excel(.xls) containing this data using Apache POI but in a formatted manner.

My final requirement is to mail the last worksheet inside the excel sheet to a set of mail ID's. I cannot use the Java mail API to do that since the SMTP details of the mailbox will not be provided to me. As of now I am planning to create a macro inside the generated excel to send the data. The macro I have created to send mail is:

Sub Send_Selection_Or_ActiveSheet_with_MailEnvelope()
'Working in Excel 2002-2016
    Dim Sendrng As Range

    On Error GoTo StopMacro

    With Application
        .ScreenUpdating = False
        .EnableEvents = False
    End With

    'Note: if the selection is one cell it will send the whole worksheet
    Set Sendrng = Selection

    'Create the mail and send it
    With Sendrng

        ActiveWorkbook.EnvelopeVisible = True
        With .Parent.MailEnvelope

            ' Set the optional introduction field thats adds
            ' some header text to the email body.
            .Introduction = "This is a test mail."

            With .Item
                .To = "[email protected]"
                .Subject = "My subject"
                .Send
            End With

        End With
    End With

StopMacro:
    With Application
        .ScreenUpdating = True
        .EnableEvents = True
    End With
    ActiveWorkbook.EnvelopeVisible = False

End Sub

But I don't know how to create this macro using java.

GhostCat salutes Monica C. :

The OP asks how to create Excel sheet using the Apache POI library that include macros. Unfortunately: that is not possible.

Quoting the POI limitations:

Macros can not be created. The are currently no plans to support macros.

Luckily, it continues:

However, reading and re-writing files containing macros will safely preserve the macros.

So, what could work out:

• you create an empty Excel sheet "manually", with Excel, that includes your macro
• you use POI to add the data to such an existing sheet
• you save that "together" into a new sheet

(or some variation of that, like creating that empty template, copy that, and open/update one of the copies)