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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation V1.1//EN" "../dtd/document-v11.dtd">
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<document>
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<header>
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<title>HSSF</title>
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<subtitle>Alternatives to HSSF</subtitle>
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<authors>
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<person name="Andrew Oliver" email="acoliver at apache.org"/>
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<person name="Glen Stampoultzis" email="glens at apache.org"/>
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</authors>
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</header>
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<body>
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<section><title>Alternatives</title>
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<p>
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Maybe it's unwise to advertise your competitors but we believe
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competition is good and we have the best support reading and
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write Excel workbooks currently available.
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</p>
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<table>
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<tr>
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<th>Product</th>
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<th>URL</th>
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<th>Description</th>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>JSC</td>
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<td>
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<link href="http://jsc.tomschuetz.com">jsc.tomschuetz.com</link>
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</td>
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<td>Reading, calculating standard and VBA functions with
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Java at runtime.
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Formula One</td>
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<td>
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<link href="http://www.tidestone.com/">ReportingEngines (division of Actuate Corporation)</link>
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</td>
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<td>An alternative to this project is to
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buy the $5000 per server installation.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Visual Basic</td>
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<td>
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<link href="http://www.microsoft.com/">www.microsoft.com</link>
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</td>
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<td>Give up XML and write Visual Basic code on a Microsoft Windows based
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Environment or output in Microsoft's beta and primarily undocumented
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XML for office format.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>JExcel</td>
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<td>http://stareyes.homeip.net:8888</td>
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<td>Frequently unavailable. Little currently known about it's capabilities.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>JWorkbook</td>
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<td>http://www.object-refinery.com/jworkbook/index.html</td>
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<td>This effort supports Gnumeric and Excel, however the Excel part is done using POI anyway.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>xlReader</td>
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<td><link href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlrd">http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlrd</link></td>
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<td>Provides decent support for reading Excel.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Excel ODBC Driver</td>
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<td><link href="http://www.nwlink.com/~leewal/content/exceljavasample.htm">http://www.nwlink.com/~leewal/content/exceljavasample.htm</link></td>
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<td>ODBC offers a somewhat wierd method for using Excel.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>ExtenXLS</td>
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<td><link href="http://www.extentech.com/products/ExtenXLS/docs/intro3.jsp">http://www.extentech.com/products/ExtenXLS/docs/intro3.jsp</link></td>
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<td>Commercial library for reading, modifying and writing Excel spreadsheets. Not cheap but
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certainly a lot more affordable than Formula 1. No idea as to it's quality.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>J-Integra Java-Excel Bridge</td>
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<td><link href="http://www.intrinsyc.com/products/bridging/jintegra.asp">http://www.intrinsyc.com/products/bridging/jintegra.asp</link></td>
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<td>Uses DCOM to an Excel instance on a windows machine.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Perl & C</td>
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<td>-</td>
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<td>There are a number of perl and C libraries, however none of them are consistent.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>VistaJDBC</td>
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<td><link href="http://www.vistaportal.com/products/vistajdbc.htm">http://www.vistaportal.com/products/vistajdbc.htm</link></td>
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<td>VistaJDBC driver works with both StarOffice and Excel spreadsheets and
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can access data using standard SQL statements without any API programming.
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VistaJDBC also implemented ability to choose by not just rows and columns but by
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specific cells, ranges of cells, etc.
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Coldtags Excel Tag Library</td>
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<td><link href="http://www.servletsuite.com/servlets/exceltag.htm">http://www.servletsuite.com/servlets/exceltag.htm</link></td>
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<td>
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This library outputs a simple CSV file, in which cells can
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contain numbers or text. You could output a CSV file without its
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help, but it gives a little more readability/structure to the code, and
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could be extended to handle more complexity. When
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you invoke one of these JSP pages from your browser, you open up an Excel
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spreadsheet. There's no formatting, worksheets, or anything fancy like that.
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So it's not strictly a competitor but it does the job.
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</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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</section>
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</body>
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</document>
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