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Alternatives to HSSF
| Alternatives |
Maybe it's unwise to advertise your competitors but we believe
competition is good and we have the best support reading and
write Excel workbooks currently available.
| Product |
URL |
Description |
| Formula One |
www.tidestone.com
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An alternative to this project is to
buy the $10,000 Formula 1 library
and accept its crude api and limitations. |
| Visual Basic |
www.microsoft.com
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Give up XML and write Visual Basic code on a Microsoft Windows based
Environment or output in Microsoft's beta and primarily undocumented
XML for office format. |
| JExcel |
http://stareyes.homeip.net:8888 |
Frequently unavailable. Little currently known about it's capabilities. |
| JWorkbook |
http://www.object-refinery.com/jworkbook/index.html |
This effort supports Gnumeric and Excel, however the Excel part is done using POI anyway. |
| xlReader |
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlrd |
Provides decent support for reading Excel. |
| Excel ODBC Driver |
http://www.nwlink.com/~leewal/content/exceljavasample.htm |
ODBC offers a somewhat wierd method for using Excel. |
| ExtenXLS |
http://www.extentech.com/products/ExtenXLS/docs/intro3.jsp |
Commercial library for reading, modifying and writing Excel spreadsheets. Not cheap but
certainly a lot more affordable than Formula 1. No idea as to it's quality. |
| J-Integra Java-Excel Bridge |
http://www.intrinsyc.com/products/bridging/jintegra.asp |
Uses DCOM to an Excel instance on a windows machine. |
| Perl & C |
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There are a number of perl and C libraries, however none of them are consistent. |
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