RE: Excel Integration

One thing to note with POI is that it only supports Excel 97 - 2002. 
 
Also, the comment about Excel files not being structured is far from the truth. 
It's on what's called "OLE 2 Compound Document Format" which is a binary format 
Microsoft uses for all of it's Office products.
 
Matt

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Scott Klement
Sent: Fri 4/28/2006 5:11 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Excel Integration




You don't need to know much about Java to use the POI/HSSF classes from
RPG. I've written a series of articles that provide enough information to
get started.  It's worth reading, at any rate.

http://faq.midrange.com/data/cache/533.html

If you'd prefer to buy something, there are vendors offering this type of
product.  I've tested iExcelGen from Goering, it seemed to work, though I
didn't use it in production since I went the POI/HSSF route.
http://www.goering.de/

There are other vendors as well, though I haven't tried them.  You might
try searching Google

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Arthur.Marino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I'm fairly desperate to have my RPG programs interact with Excel
> spreadsheets so field people can do their budgeting off-line.
> I need to be able to create the workbook and later be able to read
> rows/columns from it. Simple .csv files are not going to cut it.
>
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