Introduction

What is Jinx?

Jinx is an Excel Add-In that enables developers to extend Excel’s capabilities with Java, Scala Kotlin, Clojure and other JVM languages.

For organizations that want to provide their end users with functionality within Excel, Jinx makes code written for the JVM a performant, flexible back-end for Excel worksheets.

Example use cases include:

  • Calling existing Java code to perform calculations in Excel
  • Data processing and analysis that’s too slow or cumbersome to do in VBA
  • Pulling in data from external systems, such as databases
  • Querying large datasets to present summary level data in Excel
  • Exposing internal or third party libraries to Excel users