Author: nick
Date: Mon Oct 13 10:29:56 2014
New Revision: 1631335
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1631335
Log:
Update the website around Ant and JDK versions
Modified:
poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/howtobuild.xml
poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
Modified: poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/howtobuild.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/howtobuild.xml?rev=1631335&r1=1631334&r2=1631335&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/howtobuild.xml (original)
+++ poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/howtobuild.xml Mon Oct 13 10:29:56
2014
@@ -32,25 +32,26 @@
<section>
<title>JDK Version</title>
<p>
- POI 3.5 and later requires the JDK version 1.5 or later.
- Versions prior to 3.5 require JDK 1.4+.
+ POI 3.11 and later requires the JDK version 1.6 or later.
</p>
<p>
- Note: Version 3.11 and newer will remove support for JDK 1.5 and
thus will require JDK version 1.6 or later.
+ POI 3.5 to 3.10 required the JDK version 1.5 or later.
+ Versions prior to 3.5 require JDK 1.4+.
</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>Install Apache Ant</title>
<p>
- The POI build system requires <link
href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi";>Apache Ant</link>
+ The POI build system requires <link
href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi";>Apache Ant</link> version 1.8 or
later
</p>
<p>
Specifically the build has been tested to work with Ant version
- 1.7.1. To install the product, download the distribution and
follow the instructions.
- </p>
- <p>
- Remember to set the ANT_HOME environment variable and add
ANT_HOME/bin
- to your shell's PATH.
+ 1.8.4 and 1.9.4. To install the product, download the
+ distribution and follow the instructions.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Remember to set the ANT_HOME environment variable and add
+ ANT_HOME/bin to your shell's PATH.
</p>
</section>
<section>
@@ -132,6 +133,16 @@
property "POI.testdata.path" to make the test framework find
the required test-files.
</p>
</section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Using Maven</title>
+ <p>Build Apache POI using Maven is not currently officially
+ supported, and we strongly suggest continuing to use the official
+ Ant build.</p>
+ <p>However, including Apache POI within your own Maven project
+ is fully supported, and widely used. Please see the
+ <link href="overview.html#components">Components Page</link>
+ for details of the Maven artifacts available.</p>
+ </section>
</body>
<footer>
<legal>
Modified: poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml?rev=1631335&r1=1631334&r2=1631335&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml (original)
+++ poi/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml Mon Oct 13 10:29:56 2014
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
</devs>
<release version="3.11-beta3" date="2014-??-??">
+ <action dev="PD" type="add">The minimum Apache Ant version required to
build has been increased to 1.8.x or later</action>
<action dev="PD" type="add" fixes-bug="56956">Add a NPOIFSFileSystem
constructor with a FileChannel and the read-only option</action>
<action dev="PD" type="fix"
fixes-bug="56914">XSSFRowShifter.updateConditionalFormatting throws IOOBE when
there are more than 1 CTConditionalFormatting</action>
<action dev="PD" type="fix" fixes-bug="56913">Replace usages of
o.a.p.util.ArrayUtil.copyOf* methods with replacements from j.u.Arrays</action>
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