While searching for an sftp java class I found the following. It's free,
multiplatform, and seems to have some of the import capabilities that were
mentioned in the recent discussion. I might check it out myself when I have
time - supposed to be working right now. I hope it is useful to somebody.

fdp

Posted By: drepasky
Date: 2004-10-21 06:47
Summary: J-Bird Version 0.4.1 (alpha)
J-Bird: listing software for birders, written in Java. New to this release:
import of checklists from CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, tables in HTML
documents, dBase .dbf files, and relational databases; preferred checklists
can be assigned to trips and to regions for use when ticking species that
have been observed; a search dialog for text in displayed tables; a search
dialog for species names in collapsable tables; instructions for accessing
the underlying database remotely or from Perl.


Existing features: basic ticking, trip reports, ability to count species
ticks, and to generate composite lists of species such as life-lists or
region lists, ability to query sightings and display results as tables, web
pages, or CSV. Checklists can be created, used to tick species that have
been observed on trips, and included in trip reports.

You can download it here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19835&package_id=5079
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