How to read a .xls file using J2ME

i am developing a mobile application for Symbian S40 platform and i am using J2ME.so i just want to read a .xls file.

so please tell me how can i do this?

can i use Apache POI for this purpose?

The two primary ways of reading Excel files with Java are POI and JExcelApi. However, both are written for Java SE and use classes not found in the CLDC-based Java ME implementations such as Nokia phones.

These projects are open source, so you can always try to extract the code you need from them and/or port them to the more restricted CLDC/MIDP platform.

Alternatively, is there a way you can push the reading of the spreadsheets to the server instead? Have a servlet/JSP use POI/JExcelApi to parse the spreadsheet and return the information you need in a format your client application can parse.