Picking specific values from the Excel sheet

[sharma kapil]

Hello Everyone
I wud appreciate your help for the following concern:-
I want to pick values from a formated excel sheet ...ie only few cell values from [sheet1] ...similar is the case of picking values from different sheets..
Certainly I can't do like
---- ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery( "Select * from [Sheet1$]" );
---rs.getString(1);

As I can not give the col name since it is a formatted sheet . and obvsly no chance of gettin the desired output
Now can anyone of guide me how to proceed?? i.e to pick values from certain specific cells
Thanks in advance

[Ben Souther]

There is nothing in JSP for working directly with MS-Office products.
You'll need to find some 3rd party libraries such as Jakarta POI

Moving to Other Open Source Projects.

[sharma kapil]

Hi Ben
thanks for your reply .
I need a little bit more clarification on the same ... I am not very sure of using the 3rd party libraries....i tried searching on the site but in vain ...can you please guide me little more?
The website is leading me to "Apache Cocoon" & i have no idea about this.
Do I need to download some 3rd party libraries for the same?