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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I don't know the performance impact of this, but it seems like something that could be done once when the instance is created since we're only reading from these (not writing).