NOTE: If you're looking for code example exporting Excel in Spring Boot, refer to this article: Spring Boot Export Data to Excel ExampleThis tutorial is going to help you in understanding how to configure Spring MVC to work with these libraries in order to deliver dynamic content in form of Excel document to the users, by developing a sample Spring MVC application that allows the users to download an Excel document generated on the fly: Clicking on the download link will prompt the users for downloading/opening the document which looks like the following screenshot in Microsoft Excel program: About Apache POI: Apache POI is a set of pure Java libraries for reading and writing Microsoft Office documents such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, etc. For working with Excel view, Spring supports two popular libraries such as Apache POI and JExcelApi (Both are free and open source).
When configured properly, a Spring’s view resolver can generate an Excel document from model data and send it to the client for downloading or opening by a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel.
Spring MVC offers seamless integration with different view technologies, including Excel document view.
