How to read and write excel file

Question

I want to read and write an Excel file from Java with 3 columns and N rows, printing one string in each cell. Can anyone give me simple code snippet for this? Do I need to

Answer 1

String path="C:\\Book2.xlsx";
try {

        File f = new File( path );
        Workbook wb = WorkbookFactory.create(f);
        Sheet mySheet = wb.getSheetAt(0);
        Iterator rowIter = mySheet.rowIterator();
        for ( Iterator rowIterator = mySheet.rowIterator() ;rowIterator.hasNext(); )
        {
            for (  Iterator cellIterator = ((Row)rowIterator.next()).cellIterator() ; cellIterator.hasNext() ;  ) 
            {
                System.out.println ( ( (Cell)cellIterator.next() ).toString() );
            }
            System.out.println( " **************************************************************** ");
        }
    } catch ( Exception e )
    {
        System.out.println( "exception" );
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

and make sure to have added the jars poi and poi-ooxml (org.apache.poi) to your project