OpenXLS is a Java spreadsheet SDK that allows you to read, modify and create Java Excel spreadsheets from your Java applications.
OpenXLS is the open source version of ExtenXLS -- a Java spreadsheet SDK from Extentech that allows you to read, modify and create Java Excel spreadsheets from your Java applications.
Extentech released the source under LGPL a year or so ago, and has since dropped maintenance and support for OpenXLS. The code is now under active maintenance on Github:
-- Feb 2014