lightweight Java api for writing excel file

Question

I need to create an excel file with simple text data. Concretely, it will allocate a list (one per cell) of email addresses. Data volume will be aprox 200000, so, I want to format it in, at least, 4 sheets (same book). This is because I need to be able to open the file in old Excel versions (max 65536 rows per sheet).

Due to simplicity of data (with no charts, neither functions, etc.), I can use many APIs. Few years ago I used Apache POI to manage excel files with nice results, but I think that is too heavy (1,7MB for version 3.7) and I want to know if there is other APIs less heavy.

Also, i would like it would be available in Maven repository.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

JExcelAPI is your friend here. All fully Mavenised and ready to go.

Answer 2

Not directly an answer but this page seems to have some good information in comparing the different solutions. Gary's suggestion in JExcelAPI and ApachePOI are both presented along with a few more