"CHAN CHEE WAI, QMD" wrote: > > > hi, a question from a newbie......... > > i intend to read/write an excel file using jsp so i download the > POI 1.5-dev-20020416 (release candidate for 1.5) file......... > 1) which file should one download? the source/binary? > 2) after unzip the download, i got lots of file, which is the one i > needed? how do i use it? > 3) how to i use it in my jsp/java file? ie import which file n how? > ie, can someone tell me how to i use this POI-HSSF in my jsp > application which has already been written, complied and executed > successfully. > > i have a faint idea which is to copy a .jar to my WEB-INF/lib/. is it > correct? > thanks for all the help......... > > This communication contains confidential or privileged information. If > you are not the intended recipient, please notify us IMMEDIATELY that > you have received it and destroy it. We are not liable for any > unauthorised sending of or interference with this communication.
I havent used it in a JSP, but as a standalone. I needed to include: lib/core/commons-logging-1.0.jar and jakarta-poi-1.5.0-dev-20020425.jar for the app to build and run. I downloaded the source and built that, I suspect the binary package is just as good. One thing I noticed that formulas are not yet implemented, so it is not able to read in formulas from the xls file. I believe folks are working on this at the mo. Hope that helps Khalid
