If you're interested, I've got some code for JExcelAPI that does stuff like take a structure of queries and turns them into sheets in a workbook, and vice versa.
:Denny -- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Aristotle On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Craigsell wrote: > We currently have a CFMX7 application that uses Jakarta POI HSSF to create > excel spreadsheets from a query. We initially chose POI because we wanted a > higher degree of control over cell formatting (currency, date, etc) than what > we could get in CFReport. The problem is that POI is eating memory. A two > thousand row 24 column spreadsheet which saves out at 771kb takes over 120mb > of memory during creation and is bringing our server down when we get > multiple requests. > > We were looking for alternatives to POI. I found JExcel but I couldn't find > any data to see if it was better on memory usage than POI. I suspect it > won't be but.... I am also contemplating creating XML spreadsheets which I > can send to the user zipped to compensate for the bigger size. I've done > that before but I just would prefer the user to get an xls workbook rather > than an xml one. > > Anyone have any experience with JExcel and how it compares to POI HSSF? Or > another alternative I hadn't considered? > > Thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:316304 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
