How to create new excel sheet using jsp
In this program, we are going to create a new excel sheet using java .You can create any number of new excel sheets in a excel file.
To create a excel sheet we can use third party APIs
.The name of this API is POI. This API is provided by the Apache Jakarta(Jakarta POI - Java API To Access Microsoft Format Files
) Tomcat. You can download POI.jar
form Apache Jakarta Project.It is open source.
OLE 2 compound Document Format is based on files including most Microsoft office
files as XLS and DOC.
The package we need to import is java.io.InputStream, org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet
and org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel. HSSFWorkbook.
The java.io.InputStream class is used to create file. We are creating
an excel file named "newrajesh.xls". The org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel. HSSFWorkbook
class is used to create an object of HSSFWorkbook, by which we will
write our new rajesh.xls file. This object allows us to modify the excel
file. The org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet
is used to create an object of sheet .
The org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet
is used to create a new sheet. This class extends java.lang.Object. It is used
to create a high level worksheet.
To create new sheet, we use HSSFSheet constructor
in which we pass the name of the sheet as an string argument. We can create
any number of sheets. As we are creating here six sheet as named
new
sheet, second sheet ,third sheet ,fourth sheet, and fifth sheet.
You have to follow the following steps to execute this example:
Steps:
- Download the POI.jar from Apache Jakarta Project .
- Extract it and then copy poi-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar,poi-contrib-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar and poi-scratchpad-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar into C:\apache-tomcat-5.5.23\common\lib directory .
- Then download our example copy it into C:\apache-tomcat-5.5.23\webapps\excel.
- Start the web server.
- Create folder into C drive with the name of C:\excel.
- To compile and run open Internet Explore and write http://localhost:8080/excel/excelPoi.jsp.
- After pressing enter or on click Go. Output "Your file has been created succesfully" will be diplay on browser
- The excel file will be generated into C:\excel folder.
The code of the program is given below:
<%@ page import="java.io.InputStream" %>
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The output of the program is given below: