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Java, Apache, and Excel

January 23, 2003

Two articles on the same day about producing Excel spreadsheets using the Apache POI project, APIs for manipulating Microsoft document formats with Java:

• Avik Sengupta and Andrew Oliver's "Opening Microsoft File Formats to Java" on OnJava.com, and
• Steve Punte's "Excel Reports with Apache Cocoon and POI" on XML.com.

I keep having to create Excel spreadsheets on the fly. I do it with Perl, of course, but POI is intriguing. One of the reasons that I'm getting back into Java is all the cool Apache projects that use Java.