Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Apache Jakarta Project's POI subproject is a pure Java port of Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Documentation format and related file formats. The Apache Jakarta POI project contains the following subcomponents: HSSF (Horrible SpreadSheet Format) - reads and writes Microsoft Excel (XLS) aka BIFF 8(+) format files. HPSF (Horrible Property Set Format) - reads "Document Summary" information from Microsoft Office files HDF (Horrible Document Format) - reads Microsoft Word (DOC) format files. More information can be found on the Jakarta POI homepage.\n This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.