public FormulaViewer() 
{

}

Creates new FormulaViewer

 public static  void main(String[] args) 
{
        if ((args == null) || (args.length  >2 )
                || args[ 0 ].equals("--help"))
        {
            System.out.println(
                "FormulaViewer .8 proof that the devil lies in the details (or just in BIFF8 files in general)");
            System.out.println("usage: Give me a big fat file name");
        } else if (args[0].equals("--listFunctions")) { // undocumented attribute to research functions!~
            try {
                FormulaViewer viewer = new FormulaViewer();
                viewer.setFile(args[1]);
                viewer.setList(true);
                viewer.run();
            }
            catch (Exception e) {
                System.out.println("Whoops!");
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        else
        {
            try
            {
                FormulaViewer viewer = new FormulaViewer();
                viewer.setFile(args[ 0 ]);
                viewer.run();
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                System.out.println("Whoops!");
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
}

Method main pass me a filename and I'll try and parse the formulas from it

 public  void parseFormulaRecord(FormulaRecord record) 
{
        System.out.println("==============================");
        System.out.print("row = " + record.getRow());
        System.out.println(", col = " + record.getColumn());
        System.out.println("value = " + record.getValue());
        System.out.print("xf = " + record.getXFIndex());
        System.out.print(", number of ptgs = "
                           + record.getNumberOfExpressionTokens());
        System.out.println(", options = " + record.getOptions());
        System.out.println("RPN List = "+formulaString(record));
        System.out.println("Formula text = "+ composeFormula(record));
}

Method parseFormulaRecord

 public  void run() throws Exception 
{
        POIFSFileSystem fs      =
            new POIFSFileSystem(new FileInputStream(file));
        List            records =
            RecordFactory
                .createRecords(fs.createDocumentInputStream("Workbook"));
        for (int k = 0; k <  records.size(); k++)
        {
            Record record = ( Record ) records.get(k);
            if (record.getSid() == FormulaRecord.sid)
            {
               if (list) {
                    listFormula((FormulaRecord) record);
               }else {
                    parseFormulaRecord(( FormulaRecord ) record);
               }
            }
        }
}

Method run

 public  void setFile(String file) 
{
        this.file = file;
}

Method setFile

 public  void setList(boolean list) 
{
        this.list=list;
}