How to access office 2007(OOXML) from Java

Apache POI is the solution you are looking for. The project made java developers life simple to read and write excel, word and powerpoint files. I have used Apache POI 3.1 which helped me to read Office 2003 documents.

When microsoft released office 2007 it used OOXML formats such as XLSX and DOCX, which limited POIs capabilities. The earlier versions of POI used OLE 2 Compound Document format, and now you can easily read or write excel, doc(97-2007).

The latest release POI 3.5 final came out in 28-September-09 and I am very eager to use it for my project and I swear u will be eager too.