Avik Sengupta

Biography

Avik Sengupta is the CTO at Itellix Software Solutions. He is also a contributor to the <href="jakarata.apache.org/poi"> Jakarta POI project.

Articles

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An Introduction to IKVM
Publish Date: Aug. 18, 2004Java and .NET are two different worlds, but they can live within one process with IKVM. This "JVM for .NET" allows .NET (or Mono) to leverage Java code, and vice versa. Avik Sengupta provides an introduction to this important new environment. Reading and Writing Excel Files with POI
Publish Date: Apr. 16, 2003The Jakarta POI project provides a nice Java API for reading and writing Microsoft file formats. After learning about the project, most people ask, "How can I write a spreadsheet?" Andrew C. Oliver and the POI folks demonstrate how to read and write Excel files using the Horrible SpreadSheet Format class. Opening Microsoft File Formats to Java
Publish Date: Jan. 22, 2003Microsoft's file formats were once black arts to developers on non-sanctioned platforms. Thanks to Jakarta POI, however, it's possible to read and write them from Java. Apache's Andrew C. Oliver and Avik Sengupta explain the basics of the project in the first of a series of three articles.