Andrew Oliver

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Andrew C. Oliver is a professional cat herder who moonlights as a software developer and runs a small consultancy with an ugly retro looking website that one day will be updated when he and his compadres aren't too busy working with clients.

He founded the Jakarta POI project and the upcoming Enterprise Reporting System project. He's an active member of the Apache Software Foundation, a PMC member of the Krysalis foundation, President of the Triangle Java Users' Group, and a committer to the Apache Cocoon and Lucene projects.

You might also catch him lurking on the JBoss or Jetspeed lists. Finally, when his ADD kicks in he's writing trash in his blog, playing around with Mono, reading an encyclopedia, or making irritating noises with his guitar, much to the annoyance of his wife. And yes, he'll sleep when the recession is over.

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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.

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