Question

I want to read ms-excel file in java and I’ve also downloaded the compressed file containing ‘poi’ api by Apache( on the site http://jakarta.apache.org/poi) but where actually to unzip it? means in which path?? whether in org.Apache or somewhere else??

Answer 1

I just unpacked it in the same directory as my NetBeans project and created a library as shown here.

Addendum: Download the preferred file from Apache Poi and unzip it in a convenient place such as your project directory. I added poi-3.6-20091214.jar as a new library from my NetBeans project directory.

$ ls -1
build
build.xml
manifest.mf
nbproject
poi-3.6
src
test
test.xls

Building form the command line is straightforward, too.

$ javac \
  -cp poi-3.6/poi-3.6-20091214.jar \
  -d build/classes \
  -sourcepath src \
  src/POIExcelReader.java