You could use JDBC to read directly from the excel file.
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> Duck-Jin Chun
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> The "formula one" product that I suggested is 100% java.... and has an
> extensive api for reading, and manipulating excel files. It will do the
> job... but may be overkill.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jake Brain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 6:32 PM
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> Subject: Re: convert excel .xls to .csv
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> It's a very silly problem. But I have a file upload type servlet that
> uploads a csv and parses it to a business object. In order to make
> everything very easy for the user (not requiring them to do file > save
> as CSV) I was wondering if there was some java solution to convert the
> .xls to csv , and then parse.
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