Converting data in excel sheet to a ms-access database programmatically

[Saumyaraj Zala]

I am working on an Online examination project in j233 in which i want to keep a functionality that faculty can upload a question bank.He would upload an excel sheet from which data would be transferred in my access table.
Please suggest me way so that i can implement this functionality.
Am i going right

Thank u.

[Ulf Dittmer]

A library like Apache POI can read Excel files. Then you'd use the JDBC API (via an appropriate driver for your DB of choice) to insert the data into the DB.

This being a web app, Access would probably not be a good choice, though - the JDBC/ODBC bridge driver is buggy, not maintained, and not thread-safe. It will also be removed from the JRE in Java 8. A commercial driver would be a better alternative, or -of course- a proper multi-user DB like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Derby etc.