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>Some other reasons to use POI :
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>- we want to generate XLS file on a server (not allways Win$ + Office).  Usually
>Office is not installed on servers.
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That and if you use it, its single threaded as an OLE server.  Meaning 
if you open two sheets at once, then it
fights itself.

>- then those files would need to be printed (margin), have graph, logo (image
>ion cell), and coordinates would need to be in inches, cm, mm :-)
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Once again.....figure out the mathmatical correllation between the units 
Excel is storing and mm, cm or Inches and I'll do the
rest ;-)

>- they even can be embeded in a web page in IE browser.
>
Mozilla rulez! ;-)  (Mozilla = Mozilla and any browser embedding 
mozillas guts, I consider them all the same)

>- a previous application was written in Java and doing export in various formats
>: XML, HTML, pdf,... and an XLS export is needed.
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This is the use case I had in mind when I started this thing.  Done that 
project a couple times.  (Usually started out
"cool we'll deliver the data over the web".....accounting "But how do we 
get it into Excel?") --  BTW this is a good
use case for the HSSF Serializer for Cocoon.

-Andy

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