Review - Is IBM Data Analytics with Excel and R Professional Certificate Worth it? (2025)

Companies are always collecting data about their customer’s behavior on their platform or maybe their products review and many other standards to make better decisions to improve their services and the user experience. Still, this data needs someone who can leverage the power of the data to make decisions, which is the role of data analysts. This career is one of the hottest in this century. Analyzing the data to get insight and better understand your users and customer will help you make your business successful or maybe have a good position in a company. 

How to Read, Write XLSX File in Java - Apache POI Example

No matter how Microsoft is doing in comparison with Google, Microsoft Office is still the most used application in software world. Other alternatives like OpenOffice and LiberOffice have failed to take off to challenge MS Office. What this mean to a Java application developer? Because of huge popularity of MS office products you often need to support Microsoft office format such as word, Excel, PowerPoint and additionally Adobe PDF. If you are using JSP Servlet, display tag library automatically provides Excel, Word and PDF support. Since JDK doesn't provide direct API to read and write Microsoft Excel and Word document, you have to rely on third party library to do your job. Fortunately there are couple of open source library exists to read and write Microsoft Office XLS and XLSX file format, Apache POI is the best one. It is widely used, has strong community support and it is feature rich.