Question

I’m wondering if there is any tool/library that would fill Java objects with data from Excel spreadsheet.

My idea is like you have an Excel spreadsheet that has first line that contains column names with mirroring names of field in target Java object. All other lines are data, so the library would take the class used for instantiation of objects and fill the list with as many instances as there are lines in Excel file.

Is there something like this around?

Answer 1

You will have to code your own utility for doing this task. There are helpful libraries out there:

• Apache POI – http://poi.apache.org/spreadsheet/index.html
• JExcel API – http://www.andykhan.com/jexcelapi/tutorial.html