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Apache POI provides a very simple yet powerful API for creating/modifying/reading Excel documents. Prior to the 3.6 release, POI was able read/write Excel documents only in Microsoft’s OLE Compound Document format. 3.6 onwards, POI has included the support for Microsoft’s OOXML (Open Office.org) standard for creating and reading Excel documents. Read on to figure out how seamlessly it integrates with Open Office documents. Continue reading →