Any use for excel to datatable conversion?

[nickarls]

I was thinking about some sort of metadata-format for datatable exporting to Excel so that RichFaces and ICEfaces could do their special magic that goes beyond h:dataTable layout and came to wonder if it would be useful to do the reverse, that is read an excel file and display it as a datatable? Any usecases for this? Some sort of

<e:viewExcel value="#{dataBean.workbook}/>

that would access and Excel-document as an byte array and convert it to a datatable...

[lvdberg]

Hi Nicklas,

that would be very helpful, because we are still struggling with that.

Thanks,

Leo