Felix, Nick: thank you for your prompt response. I didn't even expect to get an 
answer THAT quickly... ;-)

In my current implementation, I was instantiating HSSFWorkbook, but from what 
Nick has been saying is that the proper approach is to use the WorkbookFactory. 
I need to be able to read XLS and XLSX files, so I guess the factory would be 
more appropriate. Since I am new to POI, could you please give me a snippet of 
code to use the factory and also elaborate on what other Excel file formats the 
package works with?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Pavel.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Burch [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 2:17 PM
To: POI Users List
Subject: Re: XLS and XLSX

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Pavel Bortnovskiy wrote:
>> From the docs, in order to read XLSX I would need to instantiate
>> SXSSFWorkbook, but it's not available in the package.

I'm not sure what docs you were reading - SXSSF is for writing only! You 
probably want either XSSFWorkbook or WorkbookFactory, depending on if you want 
to do XLSX only, or handle both

You should probably also read http://poi.apache.org/spreadsheet/converting.html
for information on changing your HSSF code to work with both

Nick

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