Re: Excel in Java

In fact I need something like pure Java spread*** engine as library. The
application will be standalone. I do not want users to think that this model
is excel based. Most Excel features will be disabled. At the moment my Excel
files combines extended business plan. I though it should be quite quick and
efficient to work on this file by using Java spread*** engine library with
good API, so I could totally change the look and write some additional
functions integrated with my business plan model. I addition I will have to
provide some input data from my current Java app. Users should be allowed
only to modify designated part of model by inserting new rows, updating
cells and creating simple formulas (in Excel based way).



Cheers,



Greg



"tnleeuw" <tim.leeuwvander@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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David Kerber wrote:
Have you looked at OpenOffice.org? I don't know if their spread***
does macros, but it does handle handle .xls format files with no trouble
that I've run into yet.


But how feasible would it be to access it from a Java application? What
if that Java application has to be portable or self-contained? What
about server-side Java applications? Don't know if the O-P wants a
server-side application, but I think the other concerns are valid
nonetheless:instead of making your app. dependant on MS-Excel, you're
making your app dependant on another huge beast.

I think the O-P wanted more something along the lines of a pure Java
spread***-engine, that can be bundled as a library, and also still
read&execute Excel files?

Cheers,

--Tim



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