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    1.1.1 Why Apache Poi For Excel?: Here

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    Apache POI is an open source Java library that allows creating and manipulating various file formats based on Microsoft Office, such as DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, and XLSX. It provides functionality for creating, modifying, and reading these file formats. Apache POI is preferred over other libraries for its free and open source nature, support for newer file formats like XLSX, and active development community.

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    Apache POI is an open source Java library that allows creating and manipulating various file formats based on Microsoft Office, such as DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, and XLSX. It provides functionality for creating, modifying, and reading these file formats. Apache POI is preferred over other libraries for its free and open source nature, support for newer file formats like XLSX, and active development community.

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    Apache POI is an open source Java library that allows creating and manipulating various file formats based on Microsoft Office, such as DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, and XLSX. It provides functionality for creating, modifying, and reading these file formats. Apache POI is preferred over other libraries for its free and open source nature, support for newer file formats like XLSX, and active development community.

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    1.1.1 Why Apache Poi For Excel?: Here

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    Apache POI is an open source java library to create and manipulate various

    file formats based on Microsoft Office. Using POI, one should be able to
    perform create, modify and display/read operations on following file formats.

     DOC – 97-2003 word document


     DOCX – 2007/2010/2013 word document
     PPT – 97-2003 powerpoint presentation
     PPTX – 2007/2010/2013 powerpoint presentation
     XLS – 97-2003 excel spreadsheet
     XLSX – 2007/2010/2013 excel spreadsheet

    In addition to above common formats, POI also has components that support
    minimal reading ability of few other office file formats such as MS Visio and
    MS Publisher formats.

    1.1.1 WHY APACHE POI FOR EXCEL?


    Apache POI is mostly used for reading and writing excel documents. Like
    Apache POI, there are other libraries for performing operations on Excel files.
    These include Aspose cells for Java, JXL (Now JExcel) (supports only xls
    format). However, Apache POI is most preferable due to following reasons. –

     It’s free. Aspose API is not free.


     Java JXL does not support the Excel 2007+ "XLSX" format; it only supports
    the old BIFF (binary) "XLS" format. Apache POI supports both XLS and
    XLSX.
     Apache POI is actively developed by open source enthusiasts. JExcel
    development is perhaps not in active state. Last check-in dates back to 2009.
    That is 6 years old!! (Source)
     If you are rich enough to pay for a library that manipulate excel and need
    more advanced features from excel. Perhaps you should go for Aspose. You
    can find feature vs feature comparison here.

    References – 1, 2

    1.1.2 SETUP APACHE POI


    Download latest Apache POI libraries from the publisher’s site - Apache POI
    Downloads

    You should head to the Apache POI Download Page, and then download the
    binary release. The binary releases have -bin- in their file names. The binary
    releases contain the POI jars, and their dependencies.
    There you can also find a download with -src- in the name which is the source
    package, which contains everything that you need to build Apache POI by
    yourself, but if you just want to get started you're much better off with the pre-
    compiled binary package.

    Latest Apache POI version is 3.12. You can download Apache Poi Jar files
    here. A Zip file is downloaded when you click on this link. Extract all files and
    place them in CLASSPATH of your java project.

    Open your eclipse project properties, Java Built Path, Libraries, Add external
    JARs, then select all the JARs which are extracted from the zip file you have
    downloaded.

    If you are using MAVEN, then you need to add the following dependency to
    your POM.xml file. You can get the dependency from MVN Repository.

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