How can I display a PPT file in a Java Applet?

Question

I want to open and display an existing Microsoft PowerPoint presentation in a Java Applet. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Tonic Systems was selling a Java PPT renderer until they were bought by Google. I know of no other solution.

You could implement this yourself, of course, but that's going to be a lot of work. There is rudimentary support for reading and writing PPT files in the Apache POI project, but you will have to do all the rendering yourself.