The POI team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache POI 3.1-FINAL.
Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word. See http://poi.apache.org Release Highlights: POI-HSSF - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel Format Files * Major improvements in formula evaluation * Support for conditional formatting * Support for Excel hyperlinks * Handling of embedded OLE2 documents * Support for getting excel cell comments when extracting text * Support for specifying a policy to HSSF on missing / blank cells when fetching POI-HSLF - Java API To Access Microsoft PowerPoint Format Files * Support for getting embedded sounds * Support for getting embedded OLE objects * Support for Tables * Improved text extraction * Export PowerPoint slides into image * Java2D Graphics driver POI-HWPF - Java API To Access Microsoft Word Format Files * Handling of embedded OLE2 documents * Support for extracting Escher images from HWPF files * Improved Range.replaceText() About 100 other fixes and improvements. A full list of changes is available in the change log: http://poi.apache.org/changes.html The source and binaries can be downloaded from your local mirror: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/ The release is also available from the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.1-FINAL". For the Apache POI Team Yegor Kozlov --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
