Non-IT professionals feel comfortable using Microsoft Excel as a data exchange technology. The Jakarta POI (Poor Obfuscation Implementation) API is a fantastic way for Java programmers to access ...

In this post, I introduce an open source library project for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Q: I’ve been asked to extend my company’s Java-based spreadsheet software to read ...

You can even control the type of language encoding Excel uses when reading the file, if your information deals with international names or titles. Use Java's FileWriter classes to create UTF-8 ...