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Article Excerpt by Extenttech Inc.
For the business people of the world, Excel is like mother's milk. I'm convinced that my neighbor, a financial planner for an investment bank, does our homeowner's reconciliation for fun: a showcase for his Excel prowess. It's a sickness. Excel is powerful, simple to use, and ubiquitous in virtually every market. The problem is that those of us tasked with Excel integration know that at the binary level, Excel is a gory mess and, as a rule, does not play well with anything but COM.
Extentech offers an intuitive, pure Java API for Excel integration. Under pressure from an anxious project manager, I evaluated it side-by-side with two other Java-based Excel integration tools available on the Web: POI (Apache Software Foundation) and J Excel. The requirements were for a fast, reliable tool that could push data from a lava-based application server to heavily formatted Excel templates in either Windows or Solaris operating systems.
Extentech packages its product thoughtfully, so I was reading...
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