Peter Curran, a Software Architect for Intraspect Software of Brisbane, California, builds collaborative applications for high-tech vendors, investment banks, and systems integrators. The views expressed herein are those of the author and not necessarily endorsed by employer.
For the business people of the world, Excel is like mother's milk. I'm
convinced that my neighbor, a financial planner for an investment bank, does
our homeowner's reconciliation for fun: a showcase for his Excel prowess.
It's a sickness. Excel is powerful, simple to use, and ubiquitous in
virtually every market. The problem is that those of us tasked with Excel
integration know that at the binary level, Excel is a gory mess and, as a
rule, does not play well with anything but COM.
Extentech offers an intuitive, pure Java API for Excel integration. Under
pressure from an anxious project manager, I evaluated it side-by-side with
two other Java-based Excel integration tools available on the Web: POI
(Apache Software Foundation) and JExcel. The requirements were for a fast,
reliable tool that could push data from a Java-based application server to
heavily formatted Ex... (more)
Peter Curran, a Software Architect for Intraspect Software of Brisbane, California, builds collaborative applications for high-tech vendors, investment banks, and systems integrators. The views expressed herein are those of the author and not necessarily endorsed by employer.
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