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Aeolun on Sept 16, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it

> Apache POI lets you run headless Excel. You import and interact with sheets programmatically in Java.

How does this help you in the browser?

eitland on Sept 16, 2023 [–]

You make a small small backend-for-frontend that translates requests from the browser to calls to the Apache POI library and return the information to the browser, probably as some kind of json representation.

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