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Our application uses POI API (poi-2.5.1.jar) for reading from excel files and to create excel files.
In future the application also needs to support Windows 7.
But I think POI API does not support Windows 7 excel.
1) What is the alternative ?
2) Is there a solution available which is backward compatible as well ?
Thanks for reading!
I think you are confused. There is no "Windows 7 Excel", there are just different versions of Excel. Most notably, there is the pre-2003 office file format (
.xlsor HSSF in POI diction) and the new XML-based format (.xlsxor XSSF in POI diction).POI supports both and the distinction is fairly transparent from a user model point of view, though you’ll probably need to adapt old XLS-only code.