Since the subject was brought up, I figured I'd comment (I'm one of the developers of POI, Marc Johnson is the other)
Just FYI, you might want to go to www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi. We don't keep the website as up to date as the project page. The project page will give you an idea of what the project is about though. Here's the status/project components POI - The whole project is called POI which stands for Poor Obfuscation Implementation, named for the Ole 2 Compound Document compatible library which all subcomponents are based. (this leaves room for later ports). Its also a hawaiian dish whose description sounds like the Ole 2 Compound Document format...and everyone says is as disgusting as it sounds... (see www.m-w.com or poi.sourceforge.net) HSSF-Serializer - just started development (Cocoon 2 serializer which will take gnumeric style XML in and output XLS) HSSF - this is the XLS writing API itself. It can read/write and modify (read then write) XLS files currently. It does not yet support formulas or styling but doesn't seem to mangle them. POIFS - this is the OLE 2 Compound Document format. The prototype can read and write. The beta of the production copy can write. HSSF currently depends on both. The reading will probably be done very soon. All in all the project is coming along pretty nicely. Once the serializer is done we wouldn't mind too much if we could be swallowed up by apache. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
