I'd also mention the initial XWPF support. We are finally able to create a .docx file. See example src/examples/src/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/SimpleDocument.java
+1 for the release Cheers, On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Yegor Kozlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > As you may noticed, there has been much development activity in POI over the > last two months. > There have been quite a few bug fixes and improvements, especially in the > OOXML part of POI. > So, I think it's time for a next beta (hopefully the last one before > 3.5-FINAL). > > The release artifacts can be downloaded from the following URL: > http://people.apache.org/~yegor/REL_3_5_BETA4 > > The revision number of the release is r719547 and tagged as REL_3_5_BETA4. > > Below is a short summary of key changes: > > (1) XSSF module has been significantly reworked and reached the state close > to its HSSF counterpart. > > To help you evaluate the current state of XSSF I created a set of rich > examples. The examples are based on common XSSF-HSSF interfaces so that you > can generate either *.xls or *.xlsx output just by setting a command-line > argument: > > http://poi.apache.org/spreadsheet/examples.html > Sample output can be download from > http://people.apache.org/~yegor/ss_examples/ > > (2) JDK 1.5 is now a minimum requirement. > > (3) Finally, 3.5-beta4 fully supports Maven. All POI dependencies including > ooxml-schemas and OpenXML4J are now on the central Maven repository. > > (4) This time there are no special artifacts for Maven. The Maven artifacts > are deployed by a auto-generated script created by the "ant dist" command. > See http://people.apache.org/~yegor/REL_3_5_BETA4/mvn-deploy.sh. > > (5) As usual, the release includes numerous bug fixes and improvements. The > list of changes is available in the change log: > http://poi.apache.org/changes.html > > > The vote options are: > > [ ]+1 - I support the release > [ ] 0 - I don't care > [ ]-1 - I'm opposed to the release because... > > I'm voting [+1]. Voting will last a week and end on Friday, 28th November. > > > Yegor > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Paolo Mottadelli: http://www.paolomottadelli.com Sourcesense - making sense of Open Source: http://www.sourcesense.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
