JSP is going to have to get at the database via ADO or some such technology.
In effect, the JSP is just adding another layer of code between the database
and your end result. Why not cut out the middleman, and do it from inside a
Word macro instead?

Pasting an HTML table in Word is a but ugly, because Word preserves all
sorts of features used in HTML tables that are not needed in a Word table.
Frankly, I think it would be faster (and I know it would be much cleaner) to
do something like:

(instantiate an ADO recordset called loMyRecordset and populate it)

Set loTable = ActiveDocument.Tables(1)
with loMyRecordset
   while not .eof
      loTable.Rows.Add
      With loTable.Rows(loTable.Rows.Count)
           .Cells(1).Range.Text = loMyRecordset.Fields("OneField").Value
           .Cells(2).Range.Text =
loMyRecordset.Fields("AnotherField").Value
           .Cells(3).Range.Text =
loMyRecordset.Fields("YetAnotherField").Value
       ...

       End With
       .movenext
   wend
end with

Also, is it better to do the formatting in JSP or in Word? In JSP, I format
the data and it is sent back to Word as an HTML table. Then it is just
copied and pasted onto the Word document. So, in Word, it becomes a Word
table instead of HTML table. Actually my application generates about 20
different Word tables like this and puts in the word document. What I want
to know is: