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<!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation V1.0//EN" "../dtd/document-v10.dtd">
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<document>
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<header>
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<title>HSSF</title>
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<subtitle>Alternatives to HSSF</subtitle>
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<authors>
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<person name="Glen Stampoultzis" email="glens@apache.org"/>
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</authors>
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</header>
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<body>
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<s1 title="Alternatives">
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<p>
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Maybe it's unwise to advertise your competitors but we believe
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competition is good and we have the best support reading and
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write Excel workbooks currently available.
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</p>
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<table>
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<tr>
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<td><b>Product</b></td>
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<td><b>URL</b></td>
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<td><b>Description</b></td>
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<td>Formula One</td>
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<td>
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<link href="http://www.tidestone.com/">www.tidestone.com</link>
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</td>
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<td>An alternative to this project is to
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buy the $10,000 Formula 1 library
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and accept its crude api and limitations.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Visual Basic</td>
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<td>
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<link href="http://www.microsoft.com/">www.microsoft.com</link>
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</td>
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<td>Give up XML and write Visual Basic code on a Microsoft Windows based
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Environment or output in Microsoft's beta and primarily undocumented
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XML for office format.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>JExcel</td>
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<td>http://stareyes.homeip.net:8888</td>
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<td>Frequently unavailable. Little currently known about it's capabilities.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>JWorkbook</td>
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<td>http://www.object-refinery.com/jworkbook/index.html</td>
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<td>This effort supports Gnumeric and Excel, however the Excel part is done using POI anyway.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>xlReader</td>
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<td><link href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlrd">http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlrd</link></td>
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<td>Provides decent support for reading Excel.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Excel ODBC Driver</td>
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<td><link href="http://www.nwlink.com/~leewal/content/exceljavasample.htm">http://www.nwlink.com/~leewal/content/exceljavasample.htm</link></td>
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<td>ODBC offers a somewhat wierd method for using Excel.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>ExtenXLS</td>
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<td><link href="http://www.extentech.com/products/ExtenXLS/docs/intro3.jsp">http://www.extentech.com/products/ExtenXLS/docs/intro3.jsp</link></td>
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<td>Commercial library for reading, modifying and writing Excel spreadsheets. Not cheap but
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certainly a lot more affordable than Formula 1. No idea as to it's quality.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>J-Integra Java-Excel Bridge</td>
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<td><link href="http://www.intrinsyc.com/products/bridging/jintegra.asp">http://www.intrinsyc.com/products/bridging/jintegra.asp</link></td>
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<td>Uses DCOM to an Excel instance on a windows machine.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td>Perl & C</td>
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<td>-</td>
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<td>There are a number of perl and C libraries, however none of them are consistent.</td>
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</table>
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</s1>
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</body>
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<menu-item label="HOWTO" href="how-to.html"/>
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<menu-item label="Use Case" href="use-case.html"/>
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<menu-item label="Pictorial Docs" href="diagrams.html"/>
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<menu-item label="Alternatives" href="alternatives.html"/>
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<menu label="Contributer's Guide">
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<p>
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Have more? Add a new "bug" to the bug database with [DOCUMENTATION]
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Have more? Add a new "bug" to the bug database with [DOCUMENTATION]
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prefacing the description and a link to the file on an http server
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somewhere. If you don't have your own webserver, then you can email it
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to (acoliver at apache dot org) provided its < 5MB. Diagrams should be
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<title>The New Halloween Document</title>
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<authors>
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<person email="acoliver2@users.sourceforge.net" name="Andrew C. Oliver" id="AO"/>
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<person email="glens@apache.org" name="Glen Stampoultzis" id="GJS"/>
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</s2>
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<s2 title="2.4. Alternatives and Competition">
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<p>
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The alternative to this project is to
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buy the $10,000 Formula 1 library (<link href="http://www.tidestone.com/">www.tidestone.com</link>)
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and accept its crude api and limitations. As a second alternative,
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give up XML and write Visual Basic code on a Microsoft Windows based
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Environment or output in Microsoft's beta and primarily undocumented
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XML for office format.
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Originally there weren't any decent <link href="../hssf/alternatives.html">alternatives</link> for reading or writing
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to Excel. This has changed somewhat.
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</p>
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</s2>
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<s2 title="2.4. Alternatives and Competition">
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<p>
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Alternatives to using HSSF to manipulate Excel files include:
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</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Buy the $10,000 Formula 1 library
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(<link href="http://www.f1j.com/">www.tidestone.com</link>)
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now owned by Actuate and accept its crude api and limitations.
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</li>
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<li>Give up XML, Java, and operating system independence, and
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write Visual Basic code in a Microsoft Windows based environment
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</li>
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<li>Try writing output in Microsoft's poorly documented XHTML
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for Office format.
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</li>
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</ol>
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<p>
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There is also a decent library for
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reading Excel documents written by Andy Khan called xlReader
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(<link href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlrd">http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xlrd</link>).
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It does not provide write ability.
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</p>
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<p>
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There are a number of PERL and C alternatives.
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None are consistent.
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</p>
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Originally there weren't any decent <link href="../hssf/alternatives.html">alternatives</link> for reading or writing
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to Excel. This has changed somewhat.
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</p>
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</s2>
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</s1>
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<s1 title="3. Project Overview">
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