Mixing Excel and Java
Abstract
This session will cover the various ways to utilize Excel files within Java applications including reading Excel data to producing rich Excel output. The tool used for this session is a free Excel read/write Java API. We will also show a free desktop-based spreadsheet report authoring tool.
Speaker
Virgil Dodson is a Developer Evangelist at Actuate Corporation (sponsor of the open source BIRT project) and blogger/forum moderator at the BIRT Exchange community site. Virgil has over 13 years experience as a software developer. For the past 6 years he has helped Java developers get started with Actuate's embedded reporting products. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from DeVry.
