1.4.0 (Link to github)

1.3.0 (Link to github)

Added anyColumnCreatesCollection option to allow @AnyColum to switch between two behaviors (for BeanSheetReaders only) if an Excel sheet contains more than one column with the same column name:
- false (default for versions <2.0): like in previous versions, only the last column value is returned, ie. if your sheet has three columns named "project name" that are part of an @AnyColum set, only the value of the last (right-most) column will be returned
- true: (default for version 2.0 and up): all column values in @AnyColum sets are returned as Collections, so that no data is lost
Big refactoring of SheetReader and SheetWriter subclasses to use common code bases
Some additional tests, esp. for Writers

Added optional parameter to @Column annotation to denote columns that might or might not be present. If a column is annotated as optional and it is missing, their value will be null, but no exception will be thrown.
Updated dependencies.

All configuration of Xcelite, XceliteSheet and Readers/Writers is now done through a XceliteOptions object
Behavior of Readers/Writers when encountering null/empty rows and columns can be configured via policies.
More fine-grained exceptions
Deprecation notice for some methods what will go away in Xcelite 2.x
Created a lot of tests for Writers/Readers.
Dependencies: migrated to Apache POI 4.0.x, commons-collections 4.x
Java version is now set to 8, matching the requirements of POI.

fixed header parsing for sheets with cells being null in header column
fixed some exceptions due to Error cells
Resolved some POI deprecations
Updated dependencies and integrated a couple pull requests to the abandoned eBay-repo to carry the project on.
Java version is now set to 8 (might still compile for 6)
Added ProjectLombok as dependency to replace the try/catch blocks that convert checked exceptions to runtime-exceptions with the @sneakythrows annotation from Lombok.