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IBM's alphaworks has some beans to enable you to work with Excel in Java - try the ExcelAccessor bean suite. &nbsp;Check out <a href="http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/excel/index.html" rel="ugc">http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/excel/index.html</a>&nbsp; Source code is available from IBM
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IBM's alphaworks has some beans to enable you to work with Excel in Java - try the ExcelAccessor bean suite.  Check out http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/excel/index.html [http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/excel/index.html]  Source code is available from IBM

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Also have a look in all the Java to COM bridging components. There is one from IBM (found also in AlphaWorks) and there is also JIntegra from <a href="http://www.linar.com" rel="ugc">www.linar.com</a>, which is quite good (but cost $$) and has a demo of connecting to excel.
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Also have a look in all the Java to COM bridging components. There is one from IBM (found also in AlphaWorks) and there is also JIntegra from www.linar.com [http://www.linar.com], which is quite good (but cost $$) and has a demo of connecting to excel.

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I need to read an Excel spreadsheet (about which I know very little) into a Java application. Is there any cod e to do this? I would prefer not to use ODBC as I can't hard code the file name in advance - rather I would like to use a file chooser or type in a path in a text box.<br />
Can I refer to the columns using their letters (column 'A', 'B' etc)?
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I need to read an Excel spreadsheet (about which I know very little) into a Java application. Is there any cod e to do this? I would prefer not to use ODBC as I can't hard code the file name in advance - rather I would like to use a file chooser or type in a path in a text box.
Can I refer to the columns using their letters (column 'A', 'B' etc)?

How to read data into Excel

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