The Apache POI Project is a Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2). In short, you can read and write MS Excel, Word, and Powerpoint files using Java.
Apache POI became a top level project in June 2007 and POI 3.0 artifacts were re-released. Prior to that date POI was a sub-project of Apache Jakarta.
Version Name | Release Date |
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3.11 | 2014-12-17 |
3.12 | 2015-05-09 |
3.13 | 2015-09-22 |
3.14 | 2016-03-02 |
3.15 | 2016-09-19 |
3.16 | 2017-04-19 |
Detailed instructions on getting apache-poi set up or installed.