Excel Report Via Simple Java Annotations

Introduction

This is the second part of the two part series on creating Excel spreadsheets from objects in generic collection classes. In the first part  Excel read-writeable Reports through Generics, Reflection and Apache POI we discussed the core aspects of creating the Excel spreadsheets through the Apache POI library as well as leveraging the benefits of [...]

Excel read-writable Reports through Generics, Reflection and Apache POI

Introduction

In this article we use generics, reflection and Apache POI to construct a general utility to read and write a generic collection of objects to an Excel spreadsheet.

I was recently in a project that required a lot of data to be made available from the object model to both view and modify.  There was already [...]