Project Summary
The Apache POI Project's mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2). In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java. In addition, you can read and write MS Word and MS PowerPoint files using Java. Apache POI is your Java Excel solution (for Excel 97-2008). We have a complete API for porting other OOXML and OLE2 formats and welcome others to participate.
In a Nutshell, Apache POI...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 144 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in January, 2002
ending with its most recent commit 1 day ago
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