Reading Excel data through java servlets

Question

I am doing a project in jsp and servlet. During the project i have to read some excel data from the excel sheet and store them to DB2 database. While reading from the data from the excel sheet a problem occurred. I have used the poi package to read the data from the excel sheet and the code is correct and it reads the excel sheet. Now i just displayed the number of rows and cells in the excel sheet and while displaying the value of the every cell, the servlet displays only the address of each cell instead of displaying the value. Here i am attaching the code that i have used and the output of the servlet.
One more thing that i have noticed here is i just wrote a simple java program to read the excel data using the same steps that used earlier in the servlet. In this case the program displays the actual value of the excel cell.
Could you please help me to solve the problem.
try
String fileName = req.getParameter("file1");
String filePath = "C:
Program Files
Apache Software Foundation
Tomcat6.0
webapps
kbsearch
WEB-INF
Excel Fles
"+fileName;
poifs = new POIFSFileSystem(new FileInputStream(filePath));
book = new HSSFWorkbook(poifs);
sheet = book.getSheetAt(0);
int totalRow = sheet.getLastRowNum();
out.print("Total Number of Rows: "+totalRow);
for(int i=2; i<=totalRow; i++)
row = sheet.getRow(i);
int totalColumn = row.getLastCellNum();
out.print("<br>Total Cell: "+totalColumn);
for(int j=0; j<=totalColumn; j++)
cell = row.getCell((short)j);
out.print("<br>Cell Value: "+cell);
catch(Exception e)
out.println("
Error: "+e.getMessage());
OUTPUT
Total Number of Rows: 9
Total Cell: 9
Cell Value: org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell@1450f1f
Cell Value: org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell@e3f02a
Cell Value: org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell@ac622a
Cell Value: org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell@160c21a
Cell Value: org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell@1677737
Cell Value: org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell@1c3dc66
Cell Value: org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell@1babddb
Cell Value: org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell@1069693
Cell Value: org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell@187b360
Cell Value: org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell@1172c5

Answer 1

My copy of POI came with documentation including the Javadocs part:
org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell
double getNumericCellValue()
    get the value of the cell as a number. For strings we throw an exception. For blank cells we return a 0.
public java.lang.String getStringCellValue()
get the value of the cell as a string - for numeric cells we throw an exception.
For blank cells we return an empty string.
For formulaCells that are not string Formulas, we return empty String
*/