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has anyone had an experience using Java and Excel spreadsheets?

AFAIK excel is a com object, which packages expose com to java?
[ April 01, 2005: Message edited by: James Clinton ]
 
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POI
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/

jasper might also be useful to your needs
http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/index.html

jacob
http://danadler.com/jacob/
 
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Great, thanks.
 
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You've got plenty of options:

http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javapedia?topic=ExcelSpreadsheets
 
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Hello. If somebody has a minute, I've been looking at POI but where I expected to download a series of jar file(s) I see two directores, dev and release, with subdirectories, on the mirrored download sites. Are there some downloading instructions somewhere? I haven't been able to find any....like I said, I was expecting some jars. Thank you very much for reading this and for your time.
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@Tom: Look in the release/bin directory. It contains two equivalent files, ending in .tar.gz and .zip (forget about the other files). Which one you download depends on your choice of decompressor; e.g. Stuffit can handle both, so you might as well download the smaller one.
Jar files from Apache are generally packaged up, because other files come with them (like javadocs, license, etc.). Once unpacked, the distribution contains a "lib" directory in which you'll find the jar.
 
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Thank you very much Ulf. The poi jar inside the zip works great.
 
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