There's a version of the POI library buried in the CF installation and you could replace it with the newer version from the Apache group. But I wouldn't recommend that as it could unexpectedly break some of CF in built functionality. Personally I've used Mark Mandel's JavaLoader to reference the newer version 3.0 version of the POI lib. This requires a little tweaking of Ben Nadel's POIUtility.cfc's instantiation of the POI Java classes, but it gives you ability to read the latest and greatest Excel files which was worth it to me.
The good news is that I was talking with some engineers from the CF team at CFUnited last week and they've already updated the POI library that comes with CF to be the latest and greatest. So in the future this will be less of a problem, but that's the future and not now. t On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Les Mizzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> After upgrading to the newer 3.0.2 version I had less issues. > > > Heh - gotta love this: > > "The Jakarta POI (Poor Obfuscation Implementation) API is a fantastic > way for Java programmers to access Microsoft document formats. The most > mature API from Jakarta POI is the HSSF (Horrible Spreadsheet Format) > API, which accesses Microsoft Excel documents." > > If I can figure out how to upgrade/install/whatever files on the server > (CF7 running on IIS), maybe I'm in business. > > I'm still Googling, but if anybody has a good reference on how to > install this, point me in the direction... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:308028 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
