The POI project is a project for porting OLE 2 Compound Document format based file formats (XLS/DOC/etc) to pure java.
POI 1.0.2 provides the 1. POIFS API for reading and writing OLE 2 Compound Document Format 2. HSSF API for reading and writing Excel 97 files 3. HSSF Serializer for serializing gnumeric-styled XML as Excel Spreadsheets (XLS). 4. Documentation and easy to install Samples which build on the existing samples (Thanks to Cocoon's own Ken Barozzi). Using the HSSF Serializer it is very easy to create Excel Spreadsheets (XLS) via Cocoon 2 from simple stylesheets. Possible use cases involve general presentation of columnar data to XLS based reporting. You can download the latest build at http://poi.sourceforge.net. To learn more visit our site and or join the POI user or developer mailing lists. Thanks, The POI people CHANGES: 1.0.2 This is a maintenance release of the existing stable build. While it fixes a bug of limited interest to the majority of the POI user-base, its an important fix nonetheless. Specifically this bug is improper reading and writing of single cells containing large strings (>~8228 bytes). Those using 1.0.1 who do not use this behavior do not need to upgrade. (Though we'd appreciate it if you did). Version 1.0.1 was released immediately before this bug was discovered and did not get widely announced (because of this). It is recommended that the 1.0.0 edition not be used as it contained a more serious but rare bug in which strings would not be written correctly on an intermittent basis. Specifically if the sheet contained at least two ~8228 blocks of string data and the last string broke evenly along the second or subsequent blocks, the workbook would be rendered incorrectly. Although your chances were slim and none, this was a fairly dangerous bug. -- www.superlinksoftware.com www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi - port of Excel format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]>
