Commons CSV was started to unify a common and simple interface for reading and writing CSV files under an ASL license. It has been bootstrapped by a code donation from Netcetera in Switzerland. There are three pre-existing BSD compatible CSV parsers which this component will hopefully make redundant (authors willing):
In addition to the code from Netcetera (org.apache.commons.csv), Martin van den Bemt has added an additional writer API (org.apache.commons.csv.writer).
Other CSV implementations:
There are currently no official downloads, and will not be until CSV moves out of the Sandbox, but a nightly build is available from http://people.apache.org/builds/commons/nightly/commons-csv/.
The latest code may be checked out from the following url - http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/csv/trunk/.
Please report any bugs or issues in the Commons Sandbox Jira project at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CSV. Please ask any questions or suggest any ideas for improvement on the commons-dev and commons-user mailing lists.