Retrieve from Microsoft Excel document for CodeGenerator?

Basically, I have a code generator that I've made in java (that generates code for a Visual Basic Quiz program I'm making) that I would like to make more effecient by using it with a database.

If anyone is interested, this is what it looks like:

Code :

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import java.io.*;
	import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
	import java.io.FileOutputStream;
	import java.io.PrintStream;
	import java.util.Vector;
	public class codegen {
		static int qnum = 1;
		static int snum = 1;
	  public static void main(String[] a) {
	    Vector victor;
 
	    int size = 10;
 
	    victor = new Vector(size);
	    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
	      victor.addElement(new Integer(i));
 
	    try {
	      PrintStream out = new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream(
	          "OutFile.txt"));
	      for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
	    	  while (snum <= 15){
	    		  if (qnum <= 71){	
						out.println("ElseIf Randq = " + qnum + " And sec" + snum + "(" + qnum + ") < 3 Then");
						out.println("answrstrng = ''");
						out.println("If usrinput = answrstrng Then");
						out.println("Correct.Text += 1");
						out.println("sec" + snum + "(" + qnum + ") += 1");
						out.println("Else");
						out.println("Incorrect.Text += 1");
						out.println("sec" + snum + "(" + qnum + ") -= 1");
						out.println("canswer.Text = answrstrng");
						out.println("End If");
						++qnum;
					}
					else {
						qnum = 1;
						snum++;
					}
	    	  }
	      out.close();
 
	    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
	      e.printStackTrace();
	    }
	  }
	}

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It would make things a lot easier for me, and make the code generator complete, if where it says

Code :

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out.println("answrstrng = ''");

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i could replace the '' with text from the cell of an excel document. For example, if cell A1 said "Fiji" in the document, it would print answrstrng = "fiji".

I don't really know anything about Java databases, so if there's another way I should do this outside of microsoft excel, information on that would help me too.

Thanks!

I'm confused as to what you are asking...do you wish to use Excel, or a relational database (quite different things)? For excel, you can use 3rd party libraries such as Apache POI to read and write the file. For a relational database, you should learn SQL (and there are many options to choose from: Derby, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc...)