read microsoft word document in java

is there a simple way of reading a microsoft word document in java without using Apache PO开发者_运维知识库I package?

Or what are other alternative to achieving the same without using Apache POI package?

Using Java to Crack Office 2007 might help.

There is a commercial alternative which is pretty easy-to-use but commercial - Aspose

java docx ? http://www.javadocx.com/ it's not much for reading, but for generating dynamic output.

Sort of. If it is a WordML file, you can unzip it and then manually extract the data from the XML files inside, but trust me, it is not a pleasant process. When we tried to do it at my company we had hoped to be able to leverage some of the OOo libraries to clean up the documents and, well, it didn't work too well.