+1 on this! gerhard ---------------------------- I just found the last bug... ----------------------------
>-----Original Message----- >From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:51 PM >To: Apache Cocoon >Cc: Marc Johnson; Andrew C. Oliver >Subject: [vote] Accepting donated POI serializers/generators > > >Guys, > >POI is a java library to read/write the M$ Office format. > >You can read more at the current home of the effort: > > http://poi.sourceforge.net > >I believe that being able to read/write (say generate/serialize in >Cocoon-ese) excel and word formats will be a *major* advantage of >Cocoon, expecially for my future goal of a full KMS system. > >Using Word and Excel as editors for an native XML system will be, IMO, >*extremely* cool and would allow shops and offices to start moving their >legacy docs into the system without requiring commercial solutions. > >POI has been proposed to donation to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If >approuved will become a general java library since there is nothing >XML-related about it. > >At the same time, the POI project contains some cocoon-specific code >that they would like to donate to us. > >In order to accept the donation, we must vote. > >Note: the donation will take place even if POI is not accepted under >Jakarta. In that case, Cocoon will ship POI as an external library (no >license problems since the entire thing is based on the apache license). > >They already separated the cocoon-specific code into a package in order >to simplify the donation. They also would like to continue its >development since they believe that Cocoon will be one of the best >'users' of their library. > >So, please, place your vote on the question below: > >Would you like the cocoon-specific POI code to be hosted in the Cocoon >CVS and shipped with the next distribution (along with the POI library >in the /lib directory)? > >Thanks. > >-- >Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be > able to give birth to a dancing star. ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
