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Welcome to the xls2pojo-maven-plugin wiki!

A plugin that helps generate pojo from data provided in excel sheet, to get started add the following in the plugin section of your pom:

        <plugin>
            <groupId>com.github.pkoli</groupId>
            <artifactId>xls2pojo-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>compile</phase>
                    <configuration>
                        <fileName>target/classes/excel.xlsx</fileName>
                    </configuration>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>xls2pojo</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

Where excel.xlsx is the name of the excel file containing the data.

The data required and the order in which the data must be present is as shown :

The first column contains the class name, the second one contains the variable name and the third one contains the data type.

On completing the build a java class would be generated in the generated-sources/xls2pojo folder. A Class.java file would be generated having a variable named variable of String data type.