title: What are the best practices for rendering excel sheet reports in Java?
body: <p>I have a need to generate an excel sheet report which looks like the following template --
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/3zpnR.gif" alt="Excel Report"></p>
  
  <p>I know this can be done using libraries like <strong><code>JExcelApi</code></strong> and <strong><code>Apache POI</code></strong>. However I would like to know if there are means of accomplishing this by writing a template similar to writing <code>Apache Velocity</code> templates for sending emails.</p>
  
  <p>If there is a standard, good-practice approach for generating such reports what is it?</p>