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
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URL
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Description
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Formula One
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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.
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Visual Basic
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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.
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JExcel
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http://stareyes.homeip.net:8888
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Frequently unavailable. Little currently known about it's capabilities.
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JWorkbook
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http://www.object-refinery.com/jworkbook/index.html
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This effort supports Gnumeric and Excel, however the Excel part is done using POI anyway.
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xlReader
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http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlrd
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Provides decent support for reading Excel.
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Excel ODBC Driver
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http://www.nwlink.com/~leewal/content/exceljavasample.htm
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ODBC offers a somewhat wierd method for using Excel.
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ExtenXLS
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http://www.extentech.com/products/ExtenXLS/docs/intro3.jsp
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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.
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J-Integra Java-Excel Bridge
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http://www.intrinsyc.com/products/bridging/jintegra.asp
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Uses DCOM to an Excel instance on a windows machine.
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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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by Glen Stampoultzis