Hi Nick: I had been looking into openxml4j which is a great idea, the problem is that I can not wait that long to support Excel 2007, according to their road map: http://www.openxml4j.org/Documentation/Overview.html the excel support won't be there until 2008. Thanks for your help.
Regards Nick Burch wrote: > > On Wed, 30 May 2007, bastian wrote: >> I have been using POI to import Excel files for long, I have my own >> library built on top of POI and now I need to import Excel 2007 Files. I >> couldn't find a better place than this one to ask this question and >> since the original post is good I didn't want to open a new one. > > You could try openxml4j (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxml4j/), but > I don't think they're quite at the stage of doing read/write of excel yet > (I think they're still on the container format stage). > > The guys behind it are really friendly though, and they seem keen on the > idea of POI and openxml4j developing a common excel api (probably much > like the poi usermodel), so it's easier for people to switch between the > libraries. They're hoping to start talking to us about that once they've > got their next beta out. > > > As for POI, I don't know of any of the developers having plans to > implement ooxml support to it. As Andy said last week (might've been on > -dev), if someone wants to add the support to poi, we will give them help. > If an existing ooxml java project wants to join us, we'll give it serious > thought. > > Nick > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi > The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Using-POI-with-Excel-2007-tf3629729.html#a10871638 Sent from the POI - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
