Fishing for POI  Creating Excel or Word files from Java...  Have
you ever needed to create a Microsoft Excel or Word file from
Java? If you have, did you try to do it from scratch yourself?
If you were working with Excel, did you end up creating comma-
separated data in a file (CSV files)?  CSV files work very well
as long as all you are interested in is the raw data. But what
if you are interested in including formulas in your data or need
to format your spreadsheet appropriately (with centring,
colours, bold, italics etc)? Did you give up in the end, or work
with a compromise solution?  As it happens I was recently asked
this very question by some Java developers. They were working
with a web-based application and wanted to create both Excel and
Word files for senior management to access. These files would
hold dynamically generated data relevant to their organisation.
They therefore needed to be generated programmatically as and
when required.  The POI Project  Creating Excel and Word files
is hard, not lea