| solution | advantage | shortcoming |
| Jacob | Powerful | The program is very complicated to directly call the VBA interface; the server must be: Windows system + Office installed |
| Apache THEN | Powerful operation of Excel; cross-platform | The function of manipulating word is relatively weak; different codes must be written for the two document formats of doc and docx |
| iText | General functionality; cross-platform | Can only generate rtf format files, not the real word file format |
| Java2word | Powerful functionality; relatively simple code | Just a wrapper around Jacob with all of Jacob's shortcomings |
| FreeMarker | Relatively simple code; cross-platform | The template is complicated to make, you need to save the file as xml first, and then set special tags in the huge xml; it is not a standard word file format |
| PageOffice | Powerful function; cross-platform; standard word format; simple code | Pure server-side makefiles are not supported |