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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.
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<td>Formula One</td>
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<a href="http://www.tidestone.com/">www.tidestone.com</a>
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<td>An alternative to this project is to
buy the $10,000 Formula 1 library
and accept its crude api and limitations.</td>
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<td>Visual Basic</td>
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<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/">www.microsoft.com</a>
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<td>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.</td>
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<td>JExcel</td>
<td>http://stareyes.homeip.net:8888</td>
<td>Frequently unavailable. Little currently known about it's capabilities.</td>
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<td>http://www.object-refinery.com/jworkbook/index.html</td>
<td>This effort supports Gnumeric and Excel, however the Excel part is done using POI anyway.</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlrd">http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlrd</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.nwlink.com/~leewal/content/exceljavasample.htm">http://www.nwlink.com/~leewal/content/exceljavasample.htm</a></td>
<td>ODBC offers a somewhat wierd method for using Excel.</td>
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<td>ExtenXLS</td>
<td><a href="http://www.extentech.com/products/ExtenXLS/docs/intro3.jsp">http://www.extentech.com/products/ExtenXLS/docs/intro3.jsp</a></td>
<td>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.</td>
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<td>J-Integra Java-Excel Bridge</td>
<td><a href="http://www.intrinsyc.com/products/bridging/jintegra.asp">http://www.intrinsyc.com/products/bridging/jintegra.asp</a></td>
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