Don Wiss shared this with us in microsoft.public.excel.programming:

Here in the US we use Excel and VBA to price, document, and quote
deals. But our parent company in Switzerland is totally into Java.
And they would like the entire world to use the same applications.
But pricing is completely different in the US, so we are partially
protected. But to keep our programs, and to make them happy, we have
to communicate. So what is the best way for a spreadsheet to get and
send data to Java? They said something about pointers is the way
they'd like to do it. I could see sharing an ODBC database.

ODBC would be my choice. Both Excel and Java speak ODBC.

Don <www.donwiss.com (e-mail link at home page bottom).

I don't do email. Only if you bribe^Wpay me enough. ;-)

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