Excel : Java Glossary

2008-04-19 by Roedy Green ©1996-2008 Canadian Mind Products
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Excel

Microsoft’s popular spreadsheet for Windows. It can import and export CSV files. Its native binary format is *.xls. There are tools to read and write Excel format spreadsheets in Java. In the late 1990s, I worked for David Pollack’s Athena on an Excel-compatible spreadsheet called Integer. It allowed many users to remotely collaborate on the same sheet. It could run on any machine, even servers, and display on many machines. Unlike regular Excel, it exploited as many CPUs as you could throw at it. Unfortunately, the project ran out of money just as it was beginning to catch on. In 2006, it came back to life.

The easiest way to exchange data with Excel is via CSV files. To generate spreadsheet files with embedded formulae, you will need POI.

Jacob lets you communicate with Excel using COM (né OLE).

AndyKhan jexcel
CSV: comma-separated variable file format
DataPipeline
Dorward Java Excel API
IBM’s Bridge To Java: control COM apps from Java
Integer
Jacob
JExcelAPI
Jxcell
OpenXLS
POI-HSSF
Real Gagon’s List of Excel tools
spreadsheet
Spreadsheet Student Project
TeamDev JExcel
xlSQL

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