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In the last installment, "Office Rich Client Applications", we talked of using the Office 2007 platform as a baseline from which to build rich client applications that interoperate with Java technologies in a variety of different ways. One area of Office/Java interoperability that wasn't covered, however, is probably the oldest means by which Office and Java work together, that of Java applications manipulating Office documents: creating documents, editing them, gathering data out of them, and so on.