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If you are building a software for HR or finance domain, there is usually requirement for generating excel reports which are usually across
management levels. Apart from reports, you can expect input data for application coming in form of excel sheets and application is expected to support it. These are many open source APIs to handle such scenarios.
Apache POI is one of them and is well trusted over time. 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.
In this post, I am discussing some common activities required to do in real life application.

Sections in this post:

Apache POI runtime dependencies
Some useful common classes
Writing an excel file
Reading an excel file
Using formulas in excel sheet
Formatting the cells
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Apache POI runtime dependencies

If you are working on a maven project, you can include the POI dependency in pom.xml file using this:
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<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
<artifactId>poi</artifactId>
<version>3.9</version>
</dependency>

If you are not using maven, then you can download maven jar files from POI download page. Include following jar files minimum to run the
sample code:
dom4j-1.6.1.jar
poi-3.9-20121203.jar
poi-ooxml-3.9-20121203.jar
poi-ooxml-schemas-3.9-20121203.jar
xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar

Some useful POI classes

Apache POI main classes usually start with either HSSF, XSSF or SXSSF.
HSSF is the POI Projects pure Java implementation of the Excel 97(-2007) file format. e.g. HSSFWorkbook, HSSFSheet.
XSSF is the POI Projects pure Java implementation of the Excel 2007 OOXML (.xlsx) file format. e.g. XSSFWorkbook, XSSFSheet.
SXSSF (since 3.8-beta3) is an API-compatible streaming extension of XSSF to be used when very large spreadsheets have to be produced, and heap space is limited. e.g. SXSSFWorkbook, SXSSFSheet. SXSSF achieves its low memory footprint by limiting access to the
rows that are within a sliding window, while XSSF gives access to all rows in the document.

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Apart from above classes, Row and Cell are used to interact with a particular row and a particular cell in excel sheet.
Another useful class FormulaEvaluator is used to evaluate the formula cells in excel sheet.
A wide range of classes like CellStyle, BuiltinFormats, ComparisonOperator, ConditionalFormattingRule, FontFormatting, IndexedColors, PatternFormatting, SheetConditionalFormatting etc. are used when you have to add formatting in a sheet, mostly based on some rules.
We will see the usage of above classes in coming examples.

Writing an excel file

I am taking this example first so that we can reuse the excel sheet created by this code to read back in next example.
Writing a file using POI is very simple and involve following steps:
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Create a workbook
Create a sheet in workbook
Create a row in sheet
Add cells in sheet
Repeat step 3 and 4 to write more data

It seems very simple, right? Lets have a look at the code doing these steps:
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package com.howtodoinjava.demo.poi;
//import statements
public class WriteExcelDemo
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
//Blank workbook
XSSFWorkbook workbook = new XSSFWorkbook();
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XSSFSheet sheet = workbook.createSheet("Employee Data");

//This data needs to be written (Object[])
Map<String, Object[]> data = new TreeMap<String, Object[]>();
data.put("1", new Object[] {"ID", "NAME", "LASTNAME"});
data.put("2", new Object[] {1, "Amit", "Shukla"});
data.put("3", new Object[] {2, "Lokesh", "Gupta"});
data.put("4", new Object[] {3, "John", "Adwards"});
data.put("5", new Object[] {4, "Brian", "Schultz"});
//Iterate over data and write to sheet
Set<String> keyset = data.keySet();
int rownum = 0;
for (String key : keyset)
{
Row row = sheet.createRow(rownum++);
Object [] objArr = data.get(key);
int cellnum = 0;
for (Object obj : objArr)
{
Cell cell = row.createCell(cellnum++);
if(obj instanceof String)
cell.setCellValue((String)obj);
else if(obj instanceof Integer)
cell.setCellValue((Integer)obj);
}
}
try
{
//Write the workbook in file system
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(new File("howtodoinjava_demo.xlsx"));
workbook.write(out);
out.close();
System.out.println("howtodoinjava_demo.xlsx written successfully on disk.");
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

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Reading an excel file

Reading an excel file is also very simple if we divide this in steps.
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Create workbook instance from excel sheet

Get to the desired sheet
Increment row number
iterate over all cells in a row
repeat step 3 and 4 until all data is read

Lets see all above steps in code. I am writing the code to read the excel file created in above example.
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package com.howtodoinjava.demo.poi;
//import statements
public class ReadExcelDemo
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
try
{
FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(new File("howtodoinjava_demo.xlsx"));
//Create Workbook instance holding reference to .xlsx file
XSSFWorkbook workbook = new XSSFWorkbook(file);
//Get first/desired sheet from the workbook
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//Iterate through each rows one by one

Iterator<Row> rowIterator = sheet.iterator();
while (rowIterator.hasNext())
{
Row row = rowIterator.next();
//For each row, iterate through all the columns
Iterator<Cell> cellIterator = row.cellIterator();
while (cellIterator.hasNext())
{
Cell cell = cellIterator.next();
//Check the cell type and format accordingly
switch (cell.getCellType())
{
case Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC:
System.out.print(cell.getNumericCellValue() + "t");
break;
case Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING:
System.out.print(cell.getStringCellValue() + "t");
break;
}
}
System.out.println("");
}
file.close();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Output:
ID
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0

NAME
Amit
Lokesh
John
Brian

LASTNAME
Shukla
Gupta
Adwards
Schultz

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Using formulas in excel sheet

When working on complex excel sheets, we encounter many cells which have formula to calculate their values. These are formula cells.
Apache POI has excellent support for adding formula cells and evaluating already present formula cells also.
Les see one example of how to set formula cells in excel?
In this code, there are four cells in a row and fourth one in multiplication of all previous 3 rows. So the formula will be : A2*B2*C2 (in second
row)
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public static void main(String[] args)

{
XSSFWorkbook workbook = new XSSFWorkbook();
XSSFSheet sheet = workbook.createSheet("Calculate Simple Interest");
Row header = sheet.createRow(0);
header.createCell(0).setCellValue("Pricipal");
header.createCell(1).setCellValue("RoI");
header.createCell(2).setCellValue("T");
header.createCell(3).setCellValue("Interest (P r t)");
Row dataRow = sheet.createRow(1);
dataRow.createCell(0).setCellValue(14500d);
dataRow.createCell(1).setCellValue(9.25);
dataRow.createCell(2).setCellValue(3d);
dataRow.createCell(3).setCellFormula("A2*B2*C2");
try {
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(new File("formulaDemo.xlsx"));
workbook.write(out);
out.close();
System.out.println("Excel with foumula cells written successfully");
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
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}
}

Similarly, I you want to read a file which have formula cells in it, use following logic to evaluate the formula cells.
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public static void readSheetWithFormula()

{
try
{
FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(new File("formulaDemo.xlsx"));
//Create Workbook instance holding reference to .xlsx file
XSSFWorkbook workbook = new XSSFWorkbook(file);
FormulaEvaluator evaluator = workbook.getCreationHelper().createFormulaEvaluator();
//Get first/desired sheet from the workbook
XSSFSheet sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(0);
//Iterate through each rows one by one
Iterator<Row> rowIterator = sheet.iterator();
while (rowIterator.hasNext())
{
Row row = rowIterator.next();
//For each row, iterate through all the columns
Iterator<Cell> cellIterator = row.cellIterator();
while (cellIterator.hasNext())
{
Cell cell = cellIterator.next();
//Check the cell type after eveluating formulae
//If it is formula cell, it will be evaluated otherwise no change will happen
switch (evaluator.evaluateInCell(cell).getCellType())
{
case Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC:
System.out.print(cell.getNumericCellValue() + "tt");
break;
case Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING:
System.out.print(cell.getStringCellValue() + "tt");
break;
case Cell.CELL_TYPE_FORMULA:
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}
}
System.out.println("");
}
file.close();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Output:
Pricipal
14500.0

RoI
9.25

T
3.0

Interest (P r t)
402375.0

Formatting the cells

So for we have seen the examples of reading/ writing and excel file using apache POI. But, when we are creating a report in excel file and it
becomes utmost important to add formatting on cells which fit into any per-determined criteria. This formatting can be a different coloring
based on certain value range, based on expiry date limit etc.
In below examples, I am taking couple of such formatting examples for various purposes.

1) Cell value is in between a certain range

This piece of code will color any cell in range whose value is between a configured range. [e.g. between 50 and 70]

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static void basedOnValue(Sheet sheet)

{
//Creating some random values
sheet.createRow(0).createCell(0).setCellValue(84);
sheet.createRow(1).createCell(0).setCellValue(74);
sheet.createRow(2).createCell(0).setCellValue(50);
sheet.createRow(3).createCell(0).setCellValue(51);
sheet.createRow(4).createCell(0).setCellValue(49);
sheet.createRow(5).createCell(0).setCellValue(41);
SheetConditionalFormatting sheetCF = sheet.getSheetConditionalFormatting();
//Condition 1: Cell Value Is
greater than 70
(Blue Fill)
ConditionalFormattingRule rule1 = sheetCF.createConditionalFormattingRule(ComparisonOperator.GT, "70");
PatternFormatting fill1 = rule1.createPatternFormatting();
fill1.setFillBackgroundColor(IndexedColors.BLUE.index);
fill1.setFillPattern(PatternFormatting.SOLID_FOREGROUND);
//Condition 2: Cell Value Is less than
50
(Green Fill)
ConditionalFormattingRule rule2 = sheetCF.createConditionalFormattingRule(ComparisonOperator.LT, "50");
PatternFormatting fill2 = rule2.createPatternFormatting();
fill2.setFillBackgroundColor(IndexedColors.GREEN.index);
fill2.setFillPattern(PatternFormatting.SOLID_FOREGROUND);
CellRangeAddress[] regions = {
CellRangeAddress.valueOf("A1:A6")
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sheetCF.addConditionalFormatting(regions, rule1, rule2);
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2) Highlight duplicate values

Highlight all cells which have duplicate values in observed cells
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static void formatDuplicates(Sheet sheet) {

sheet.createRow(0).createCell(0).setCellValue("Code");
sheet.createRow(1).createCell(0).setCellValue(4);
sheet.createRow(2).createCell(0).setCellValue(3);
sheet.createRow(3).createCell(0).setCellValue(6);
sheet.createRow(4).createCell(0).setCellValue(3);
sheet.createRow(5).createCell(0).setCellValue(5);
sheet.createRow(6).createCell(0).setCellValue(8);
sheet.createRow(7).createCell(0).setCellValue(0);
sheet.createRow(8).createCell(0).setCellValue(2);
sheet.createRow(9).createCell(0).setCellValue(8);
sheet.createRow(10).createCell(0).setCellValue(6);
SheetConditionalFormatting sheetCF = sheet.getSheetConditionalFormatting();
// Condition 1: Formula Is
=A2=A1
(White Font)
ConditionalFormattingRule rule1 = sheetCF.createConditionalFormattingRule("COUNTIF($A$2:$A$11,A2)>1");
FontFormatting font = rule1.createFontFormatting();
font.setFontStyle(false, true);
font.setFontColorIndex(IndexedColors.BLUE.index);
CellRangeAddress[] regions = {
CellRangeAddress.valueOf("A2:A11")
};
sheetCF.addConditionalFormatting(regions, rule1);
sheet.getRow(2).createCell(1).setCellValue("<== Duplicates numbers in the column are highlighted.
"Condition: Formula Is =COUNTIF($A$2:$A$11,A2)>1
(Blue Font)");

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3) Color alternate rows in different colors

A simple code to color each alternate row in a different color
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static void shadeAlt(Sheet sheet) {

SheetConditionalFormatting sheetCF = sheet.getSheetConditionalFormatting();
// Condition 1: Formula Is
=A2=A1
(White Font)
ConditionalFormattingRule rule1 = sheetCF.createConditionalFormattingRule("MOD(ROW(),2)");
PatternFormatting fill1 = rule1.createPatternFormatting();
fill1.setFillBackgroundColor(IndexedColors.LIGHT_GREEN.index);
fill1.setFillPattern(PatternFormatting.SOLID_FOREGROUND);
CellRangeAddress[] regions = {
CellRangeAddress.valueOf("A1:Z100")
};
sheetCF.addConditionalFormatting(regions, rule1);
sheet.createRow(0).createCell(1).setCellValue("Shade Alternating Rows");
sheet.createRow(1).createCell(1).setCellValue("Condition: Formula Is =MOD(ROW(),2)

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4) Color amounts which are going to expire in next 30 days

A very useful code for financial projects which keep track of dead lines.
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static void expiryInNext30Days(Sheet sheet)

{
CellStyle style = sheet.getWorkbook().createCellStyle();
style.setDataFormat((short)BuiltinFormats.getBuiltinFormat("d-mmm"));
sheet.createRow(0).createCell(0).setCellValue("Date");
sheet.createRow(1).createCell(0).setCellFormula("TODAY()+29");
sheet.createRow(2).createCell(0).setCellFormula("A2+1");
sheet.createRow(3).createCell(0).setCellFormula("A3+1");
for(int rownum = 1; rownum <= 3; rownum++) sheet.getRow(rownum).getCell(0).setCellStyle(style);
SheetConditionalFormatting sheetCF = sheet.getSheetConditionalFormatting();
// Condition 1: Formula Is
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ConditionalFormattingRule rule1 = sheetCF.createConditionalFormattingRule("AND(A2-TODAY()>=0,A2-TODAY()<=30)"
FontFormatting font = rule1.createFontFormatting();
font.setFontStyle(false, true);
font.setFontColorIndex(IndexedColors.BLUE.index);
CellRangeAddress[] regions = {
CellRangeAddress.valueOf("A2:A4")
};
sheetCF.addConditionalFormatting(regions, rule1);
sheet.getRow(0).createCell(1).setCellValue("Dates within the next 30 days are highlighted");
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I am ending this post here for keeping the post in limit. I will post some useful code samples in coming posts.

Sourcecode download
Click on below given link to download the source code of above examples.

Happy Learning !!

References
http://poi.apache.org/spreadsheet/quick-guide.html

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N Deepak Prasath
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 AT 6:15 AM

Hey .. Really useful.. Covers almost everything .. Thanks man !!

rajnish
AUGUST 12, 2014 AT 7:53 AM

i have genetated a .xls file and i am abls to save it by FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(new File(DirName:\FolderName\fileName.xls)); but i want it through GUI..
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AUGUST 12, 2014 AT 8:03 AM

You will get good information here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15703214/save-file-open-file-dialog-box-usingswing-netbeans-gui-editor

Sample code can be written as below. You will have to write full code as per your need.
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JFrame parentFrame = new JFrame();

JFileChooser fileChooser = new JFileChooser();
fileChooser.setDialogTitle("Specify a file to save");
int userSelection = fileChooser.showSaveDialog(parentFrame);
if (userSelection == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
File fileToSave = fileChooser.getSelectedFile();
System.out.println("Save as file: " + fileToSave.getAbsolutePath());
}

rajnish
AUGUST 12, 2014 AT 5:54 AM

How to save generated xls file at specified location ..means the path should be given by user where he want to save it??????
Lokesh
AUGUST 12, 2014 AT 6:52 AM

It is done in different ways in different type of applications i.e. console application, desktop GUI application OR web-application. What you want to know?
bharat
AUGUST 7, 2014 AT 12:07 PM

hi guys
can any one help me to how to set mime type for downloading excel files.

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bharat
AUGUST 7, 2014 AT 12:05 PM

i have used your example can any one halp me to set download prompt when generating excel files
thanks.
Kartik Purohit
JULY 28, 2014 AT 2:20 PM

Thanx man. Covered all topics and more importantly code good work keep it up
Ankit
JUNE 3, 2014 AT 10:14 AM

I am using J2EE 5.0 and jboss 5.1.0 and EJB 2.0 I have added follwing jars in lib folder and to the classpath of the project:dom4j-1.6.1.jar
poi-3.9-20121203.jar
poi-ooxml-3.9-20121203.jar
poi-ooxml-schemas-3.9-20121203.jar
xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar
When i try to deploy and run the application it is showing
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook from BaseClassLoader
kishor
MAY 20, 2014 AT 12:50 PM

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Hey buddy.. Finally found the solution by adding the Below dependencies in the pom.xml
org.apache.poi
poi
3.9

xml-apis
xml-apis
1.4.01
org.apache.poi
poi-ooxml
3.9
xml-apis
xml-apis

org.apache.poi
poi-ooxml-schemas
3.10-FINAL

kishor
MAY 20, 2014 AT 11:29 AM

Hi Lokesh,
Definately you have explained the things very well. But, I am completely struck at the step of handling xssf file. I am using maven
and as suggested above, in my pom.xml file, I have added the below dependencies.

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org.apache.poi
poi
3.10-FINAL

org.apache.poi
poi-ooxml
3.10-FINAL

But, when I try to run any of the simple tests after this, it gives me the error as :- java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/w3c
/dom/ElementTraversal
However, on removing the second dependency i.e. poi-ooxml, the other test classes work fine, but the excel code file shows error
for xssf.
Please suggest some solution on it. I am completely struck on this issue.
My requirement is basically to add data from the second row of a particular sheet of the downloaded .xlsx file and then upload this
excel file again to the application. I am referring the above code for updating the downloaded excel file. Also, It would be great if
you can provide some existing code for such scenario.
Thanks & Regards,
Kishor
Akhilesh
MAY 11, 2014 AT 10:04 AM

which location excel file will be save? if I use writing the file code?
Lokesh
MAY 11, 2014 AT 11:18 AM

You need to give the path in FileOutputStream(new File("c:/temp/howtodoinjava_demo.xlsx"));

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Saurabh
MAY 2, 2014 AT 11:00 AM

i want to retrieve data from database to excelsheet i am able to do that but if that detail in database is having more details then
cell size is not getting increase so how to increase the cell size according to field value can you help me sir..?
Jan H Malmberg
APRIL 30, 2014 AT 10:09 AM

Hi Lokesh,
I am trying to create an Excel file but when my java class do
XSSFWorkbook workbook = new XSSFWorkbook();

I get the error

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Cannot find class org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.regex.message
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Cannot find class org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.regex.message_en
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Cannot find class org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.regex.message_en_US
However I cant find any message.class in xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar.
Do you have any idea why I get these errors.
/Jan
Lokesh
APRIL 30, 2014 AT 11:24 AM

Please make sure you have xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar jar in classpath. If still facing issue, paste here you .classpath entries.

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Jan H Malmberg
APRIL 30, 2014 AT 1:05 PM

My java class is in a jarfile together with the jarfiles containing the referenced classes. The manifest looks like:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.6.5
Created-By: 1.4.2_15-b02 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Transformer-class: CSendGlobalSuppliersToJcat
Class-Path: dom4j-1.6.1.jar poi-3.7-20101029.jar
poi-ooxml-3.7-20101029.jar poi-ooxml-schemas-3.7-20101029.jar
xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar cjcatalogintegration.jar
I have also tried with the latest versions of the poi files but with the same error.
/Jan
Lokesh
APRIL 30, 2014 AT 1:21 PM

Try upgrading the version number. I will try at my END.

Jan H Malmberg
APRIL 30, 2014 AT 1:49 PM

What version number?

Lokesh
APRIL 30, 2014 AT 1:59 PM

version 2.4.0
Jan H Malmberg

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MAY 5, 2014 AT 7:35 AM

Hi Lokesh,
I have tried with both 2.4.0 and 2.6.0 with the same error.
The error message is ClassNotFoundException: cannot find class org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.regex.message' but I dont think this is the problem. The error message refere to org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.regex.message which is not a class.
Might be some problem in language or territory configuration. I dont know.
Lokesh
MAY 5, 2014 AT 7:42 AM

Its properties file i.e. message.properties file. Can you please unzip the jar and
check if it present.
Jan H Malmberg
MAY 5, 2014 AT 8:15 AM

Yes, there are 4 files present:

org.apache.xmlbeans.message.properties
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.regex..message.properties
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.regex..message_fr.properties
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.regex..message_ja.properties
The error message refere to
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.regex..message.properties
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.regex..message_en.properties
org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.regex..message_en_US.properties

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Same in all versions.

Jan Malmberg
MAY 6, 2014 AT 10:17 PM

Problem is solved. The classloader failed to load resource files. The

error message was confusing. Code works fine. Thanks.
srinikadiyala
APRIL 28, 2014 AT 10:01 AM

Lokesh:
I want to have multiple XLS report files with charts be merged into one XLS file with multiple worksheets.
For example I have file1.xlsx with 3 worksheets with charts, and file2.xlsx with two worksheets having charts. The merged file
should be file3.xlsx with 5 sheets having 3 from file1 and 2 from file 2.
Appreciate your inputs and thanks in advance
Srini
[email protected]
Ram
APRIL 17, 2014 AT 5:02 PM

Hi Logesh I need a java program to compare to identical excel sheet and bring a mismatches in the form of either pdf or simple
HTML report.Please guide me or share sample code. Thank you in Advance
ronnie
APRIL 14, 2014 AT 11:10 AM

Hi Lokesh,

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Sometimes the data exceeds 30 lakh rows. In such cases, can u suggest me something that split the dat into multiple excel files,
zip it and give the user a downloadable zip file option? Im using Rest services by the way
elbin
APRIL 12, 2014 AT 4:57 AM

hi,
how to insert data to foreign key set table ..?
Urien
APRIL 11, 2014 AT 1:33 PM

For me, work only with poi-ooxml in maven dependency. Otherwise xssf missing, but still very helpful article, thanks for it.
Subrat Parida
APRIL 6, 2014 AT 11:25 PM

Hi Lokesh,
Great article, Really helping a lot!!
I have written the data to the xls (Testing.xlsx), the program runs successfully but where can i get the output? (the xls file?)
Subrat Parida
APRIL 7, 2014 AT 12:51 AM

Got it, just gave the path in my local system but not able to open the excel file, not sure why, anybody knows, why i am not
able to open the file?
Lokesh
APRIL 7, 2014 AT 1:16 AM

Which excel version, you have installed on your system?

Subrat Parida

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APRIL 8, 2014 AT 1:31 AM

Excel 2007
Lokesh
APRIL 8, 2014 AT 5:16 AM

upgrade it.
vinaykumar
MARCH 29, 2014 AT 6:12 AM

Hi Lokesh,
My requirement is to insert the Excel sheet to a column in Oracle DataBase and process the files using a scheduler.
Inserted the Excel to CLOB column.But the way it is inserted i dont feel itis the correct way.
Even while trying to convert the CLOBData to HSSFworkbook , i am facing the below issue.
java.io.IOException: Invalid header signature; read 0x80E21193C59380E2, expected 0xE11AB1A1E011CFD0
Please , help me out.
I have no idea how to resolve this.
Lokesh
MARCH 29, 2014 AT 9:43 AM

See if they help. They make sense to me: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11846398/use-poi-to-parse-excel-but-gotexception-invalid-header-signature and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13949792/invalid-header-reading-xls-file
Jan Malmberg
MAY 2, 2014 AT 8:10 PM

CLOB column is for text data. The Excel sheet must be treated as binarya data. Store it in a BLOB column. That should work.
Srinivas

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MARCH 28, 2014 AT 3:08 PM

Hi Lokesh,
Im getting follwing error im followed u r code to create .xlsx file can you give any idea why this error occuring
ReadWriteExcelFile.java:7: cannot a
ccess org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell
bad class file: .\java_lib\poi-3.9-20121203.jar(org/apache/poi/hssf
/usermodel/HSSFCell.class)
class file has wrong version 49.0, should be 48.0
Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpa
th.
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell;
^
1 error
can any one knows the solution for above error can you please update me in below email id:- [email protected]
Lokesh
MARCH 29, 2014 AT 9:51 AM

49.0 and 48.0 are the version number of the class file format. The error message means that POI-3.9 was compiled to JDK
5 class file format and you tried to use it with JDK 4. Of course, JDK 4 couldnt support JDK 5 class file format. I think you
can try older version POI. Or just use JDK 5.
Major version number of the class file format being used:
J2SE 7 = 51 (0x33 hex)
J2SE 6.0 = 50 (0x32 hex)
J2SE 5.0 = 49 (0x31 hex)
JDK 1.4 = 48 (0x30 hex)
JDK 1.3 = 47 (0x2F hex)
JDK 1.2 = 46 (0x2E hex)
JDK 1.1 = 45 (0x2D hex)

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Seetesh
MARCH 27, 2014 AT 3:48 AM

XLSX supports only 1 lakh data to be populated per sheet. Extra logic needs to be done for checking this and create new sheets
depending on the volume of data fetched. this part seems to be missing in the code.
Nitin
MARCH 25, 2014 AT 6:33 PM

if i have date column in my excel sheet then how to read that in java program
Lokesh
MARCH 25, 2014 AT 6:40 PM

Read the column just like any other text field, and parse it to date object.
sujini reddy
MARCH 25, 2014 AT 3:30 AM

Am having the following error with yourcode which i had taken reading of excel sheet . In switch condition am getting error saying
that cannot resolved
Hitesh Chikani
MARCH 19, 2014 AT 8:44 AM

how can i convert VCF file into EXCEL??????

Hitesh Chikani
MARCH 19, 2014 AT 8:47 AM

here is my Contact Vcf File Code.

private void getVcardString() throws IOException {

final String vfile = contacts.vcf;

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// TODO Auto-generated method stub

vCard = new ArrayList();
cursor = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, null);
if(cursor!=null&&cursor.getCount()>0)
{
int i;
String storage_path = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString() + File.separator + vfile;
FileOutputStream mFileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(storage_path, false);
cursor.moveToFirst();
for(i = 0;i<cursor.getCount();i++)
{
get(cursor);
Log.d("TAG", "Contact "+(i+1)+"VcF String is"+vCard.get(i));
cursor.moveToNext();
mFileOutputStream.write(vCard.get(i).toString().getBytes());
}
mFileOutputStream.close();
cursor.close();
}
else
{
Log.d("TAG", "No Contacts in Your Phone");
}
}
private void get(Cursor cursor2) {
String lookupKey = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.LOOKUP_KEY));
Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_VCARD_URI, lookupKey);
AssetFileDescriptor fd;
try {
fd = this.getContentResolver().openAssetFileDescriptor(uri, "r");
FileInputStream fis = fd.createInputStream();
byte[] buf = new byte[(int) fd.getDeclaredLength()];

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fis.read(buf);
String vcardstring= new String(buf);
vCard.add(vcardstring);
} catch (Exception e1)
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
}
Abdul
MARCH 17, 2014 AT 9:54 AM

when i am rewriting a in excel sheet at the ending of excel sheet it is deleting all my privious data and showing new data from
rownum where i started writing. I can read excel and save in temp file and rewrite it, but i want any alternative way for only wrting
from where i want to write
Lokesh
MARCH 17, 2014 AT 6:20 PM

It might help you. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9359913/writing-to-a-existing-xls-file-using-poi

sree lakshmi
MARCH 7, 2014 AT 6:02 AM

HI,
when i included all the jar files and then tried to read excel sheet,when i tried to run the application i am getting error like :
trouble writing output: Too many methods: 66024; max is 65536. By package:
13 java.lang
1 java.lang.reflect
5 java.util
1 javax.xml.namespace
66 org.apache.xmlbeans..[2014-03-07 11:11:13 - exceldemo] Conversion to Dalvik format failed
with error 2
please any one help me how to clear this error.

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Lokesh
MARCH 7, 2014 AT 7:15 AM

May be the size of worksheet is too long. Can you please re-test it by breaking into two.
sree lakshmi
MARCH 7, 2014 AT 9:19 AM

Thanks for the reply.But no change i am getting the same error..I tried even by deleting some extra jar file but i did
not find it help full
.

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