BATCH-2041: Add support for reading excel files

This commit adds support for reading Excel files. Both JExcel and Apache POI are supported. Support for reading Excel files has been designed similar to the support for reading flat files.

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Java 8 by default validates javadoc.  To not introduce any new warnings as we clean up the existing ones, can you please add a description for the exceptions?