JAKARTA - The Indonesian Government is reportedly planning to deport 255 Sri Lankan asylum seekers, whose boat was detained on its way to Australia last month and remains moored at the port of Merak in Java.

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JAKARTA - Terrorist mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top was killed in a police raid on a militant hideout in Central Java on Thursday, Indonesian police have officially confirmed.

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JAKARTA - An archeological research team from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and the Purwokerto-based Jendral Sudirman University has discovered at least 50 new sites rich in prehistoric rings from the Stone Age along the Kliwang River in Purbalingga, Central Java.

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JAKARTA - Archaeologists have found up to 15 new prehistoric sites in Purbalingga regency, Central Java.

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JAKARTA - At least 97 people were killed when an Indonesian military plane with more than 100 people on board crashed Wednesday into a residential neighbourhood in East Java province, the military said.

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JAKARTA - An aircraft belonging to the Indonesian Air Force crashed Monday afternoon in West Java capital of Bandung, killing all 24 people on board, news reports and officials said.

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JAKARTA - At least 10 people were killed, 17 rescued and an unspecified number reported missing after a small boat capsized on the sea off Indonesia's main island of Java Monday morning, officials said.

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There are two good choices for reading & writing Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet files from Java, in a platform independent way, - jexcelapi and Jakarta POI (HSSF). Both of them provide nice interface to access Excel data structure and even generate new spreadsheet. I have done extensive tests with both of them for a high-profile project for a Fortune 500 company. Previously also I had successfully used HSSF for another high profile client. In the paragraphs below I present my conclusions and sample code for reading Excel spreadsheet from Java using both the libraries.
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Subversion is a popular version control software and replacement for CVS, the grand-daddy of all version control software which is still widely used in open source community.

Recently I had the necessity to invoke Subversion commands like checkout from Ant, a popular java based build software which replaces make tool.

There are two ant tasks to accomplish this, the better one is SvnAnt from Subclipse project. However configuring it to work was non-trivial as proper usage documentation was missing. So I decided simplify the process to make your life easier.
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Ant (java software) from Apache Foundation is a popular build tool (often used successfully with other release management tasks) which replaces make.

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