reading excel files in Java

[NickPick]

What's the best way to read Excel files in Java?
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[Dave Miller]

What's the best way to read Excel files in Java?
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Google being your friend, try this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=java+excel

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

What's the best way to read Excel files in Java?

There are no good ways.



But try one of:
- Apache POI
- ODBC and JDBC ODBC Bridge

Arne

 

[EJP]

There are no good ways.
Agreed.

But try one of:
- Apache POI

Apache POI seems to be a dead project. I stopped using it because of
memory issues. Try JXL.

 

[Roedy Green]

What's the best way to read Excel files in Java?

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/excel.html
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[Arne Vajhøj]

Apache POI seems to be a dead project.

http://poi.apache.org/ looks alive to me (releases in October
and December).

I think they were being bogged down by the work of reverse
engineering the formats, but after MS released the format
specifications, then things must have become a lot easier.

I stopped using it because of
memory issues. Try JXL.

I have never tried that one.

Arne