[ddfu]

Yeah, whatever. The only thing worse than Excel is the typical corporate-developed big Java application produced by a bloated team of mediocre programmers grown to further some middle manager's empire-building desire rather than to produce quality software. I'm not surprised that people doing organizationally key work give up on interfacing with little wannabe-CIOs counting subordinates and just get the work done with a spreadsheet.

Not to mention Excel often ends up having better performance than most home-grown solutions, especially now its core functions are properly multithreaded.

[mbreese]

Well, one thing the big Java apps have going for them is that they might have unit tests :)

[yuhong]

And more importantly it is an actual programming language unlike spreadsheet formulas.

[protomyth]

So, an Excel to Java converter would not be on your list of to-buy items.