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better open source for Excel file parsing

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I would like to know Which is better open source for Excel file parsing in Java. Does APACHE POI supports writing to excel file(along with reading excel file).What are the advantagesa dn disadvantages, practical uses of each approach.Any ideas, suggestions, sample code, links, source code highly appreciated. Thanks in advance
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>>>Apache POI is the good one... even you can work with Word document also.


Can we work with text documents too?

>>pivot tables with POI

what are pivot tables

Please advise
Refer http://poi.apache.org/spreadsheet/examples.html for POI examples.

POI supports for both .xls as well as .xlsx
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Can we work with text documents too using POI. Please advise