Java Microsoft Excel API [closed]

Answer 1

Extensive List of Products currently available:

Apache POI

OpenXls

JEXCEL

JXLS

xlSQL

JCOM

Personally, POI will be the best option, but it involves a lot of coding effort compared to JXLS, which is a wrapper over POI. In JXLS all you need to do is to create XLS template file with all required formatting, formulas etc using specific notation to indicate placement of data and then write a couple lines of code to invoke jXLS engine passing XLS template and the exported data as parameters. Catch in Jxls is the data in every cell must be a JavaBean.

Answer 2

If you want to be able to write to / read from Microsoft Formats (including Excel) you are looking for Apache POI.

Answer 3

There are a few, but Apache POI is a popular and free one.

Answer 4

Apache POI-HSSF and POI-XSSF

• every elaborate API
• works with xlsx files

JExcelAPI

• lightweight API, easier to learn
• MUCH faster on big spreadsheets (10000's of lines)
• no support (yet?) for Excel 2007+ xlsx files

Have a look at jXLS as well, it's a library on top of POI that allows you to use Excel files as templates.

Answer 5

I would also recommend checking out JODConverter.

Answer 6

You have APache POI and JExcelApi to mention two open source variants. The former supports up to version 2008 and the latter up to version 2003. Personally I prefer the syntax of the former.