jexcelapi

All I need to do is open an MS excel sheet - not sure which kind yet (2003, 2007, etc.) - and parse the information in each row into an object. I'm performing only readonly operations. out of Apache POI , JExcelAPI , or OpenXLS which is best for this task? I'd rather not find out about anymore api's but if you're certain that none of these are the best then I'll take your input. I have used POI only but found it to be simple to use and work as advertised. I do NOT recommend OpenXLS. I used it for a little while but became very frustrated by the limits of the free version. If you want to write

I am trying to write a program that will append data to an Excel file in Java. I got up to the following code. But it rewrites the contents in the Excel file, not appending to it. Please help me to complete this. public class jExcel { static WritableWorkbook workbook; public static void main(String args[])throws Exception { workbook = Workbook.createWorkbook((new File("D:\\0077\\my2.xls"))); WritableSheet sheet = workbook.createSheet("First Sheett",1); Label label = new Label(5,2,"ssssssssss"); sheet.addCell(label); workbook.write(); workbook.close(); } } //WRITE IN XLS WritableWorkbook

My program successfully creates and fills a Excel(.xls) file. Once created, I would like the new file to open in the system's default program (Excel in my case). How can I achieve this? For an older program where I wanted to open a txt file in Notepad, I used the following: if (!Desktop.isDesktopSupported()) { System.err.println("Desktop not supported"); // use alternative (Runtime.exec) return; } Desktop desktop = Desktop.getDesktop(); if (!desktop.isSupported(Desktop.Action.EDIT)) { System.err.println("EDIT not supported"); // use alternative (Runtime.exec) return; } try { desktop.edit(new

I want to create an Excel file and write data just like writing a text file with Java. I tried to change file extension from .txt to .xls . But I want to bold letters in the Excel file. How can I do that? I have tried using the JXL API, but every time I have to create a label I want add no label. Can't O edit row and column of the table? Sankumarsingh //Find jar from here "http://poi.apache.org/download.html" import java.io.*; import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet; import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook; import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFRow; public class