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POI HSSF and POI XSSF Java API To Access Microsoft Excel Format Files

HSSF is the POI Project's pure Java implementation of the Excel '97(-2007) file format. XSSF is the POI Project's pure Java implementation of the Excel 2007 OOXML (.xlsx) file format. HSSF and XSSF provides ways to read spreadsheets create, modify, read and write XLS spreadsheets.

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POI HSSF and POI XSSF Java API To Access Microsoft Excel Format Files

HSSF is the POI Project's pure Java implementation of the Excel '97(-2007) file format. XSSF is the POI Project's pure Java implementation of the Excel 2007 OOXML (.xlsx) file format. HSSF and XSSF provides ways to read spreadsheets create, modify, read and write XLS spreadsheets.

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POI-HSSF and POI-XSSF - Java API To

Access Microsoft Excel Format Files

Overview

by Andrew C. Oliver, Nicola Ken Barozzi

1. Overview
HSSF is the POI Project's pure Java implementation of the Excel '97(-2007) file format.
XSSF is the POI Project's pure Java implementation of the Excel 2007 OOXML (.xlsx) file
format.
HSSF and XSSF provides ways to read spreadsheets create, modify, read and write XLS
spreadsheets. They provide:
• low level structures for those with special needs
• an eventmodel api for efficient read-only access
• a full usermodel api for creating, reading and modifying XLS files
For people converting from pure HSSF usermodel, who wish to use the joint SS Usermodel
for HSSF and XSSF support, then see the ss usermodel converting guide.
An alternate way of generating a spreadsheet is via the Cocoon serializer (yet you'll still be
using HSSF indirectly). With Cocoon you can serialize any XML datasource (which might
be a ESQL page outputting in SQL for instance) by simply applying the stylesheet and
designating the serializer.
If you're merely reading spreadsheet data, then use the eventmodel api in either the
org.apache.poi.hssf.eventusermodel package, or the org.apache.poi.xssf.eventusermodel
package, depending on your file format.
If you're modifying spreadsheet data then use the usermodel api. You can also generate
spreadsheets this way.
Note that the usermodel system has a higher memory footprint than the low level
eventusermodel, but have the major advantage of being much simpler to work with. Also
please be aware that as the new XSSF supported Excel 2007 OOXML (.xlsx) files are XML
based, the memory footprint for processing them is higher than for the older HSSF supported

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