Thank you for your guidence, Yagor. It's much appreciated :) I was playing around with the Ant targets and I feel more comfortable with them. I don't understand them in depth, but I figured the general patterns. I managed to compile the code and generate the build folder. I also tried the ant test target and noticed that it runs all the tests provided in the code.
I have a couple more question if I may bug you :) How could I run my own junit tests on the project? Do I need to use the ant test target? how do I run only my own tests rather than all of the test suits? Is there any executable code that would help in testing within the project or is it all relying on the junit tests? Your help is much appreciated! Thanks in advance Ali On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Yegor Kozlov <[email protected]> wrote: > You are very much welcome to contribute! > > A short contribution guidelines is here: > http://poi.apache.org/guidelines.html > > Get used to the basic Ant targets: "ant compile", "ant test" and "ant > docs". Note, that the first invocation of "ant compile" will take > quite some time because it will download all jar dependencies . > > The documentation on the MS Office file formats can be downloaded from > http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/OfficeBinaryFormats.mspx (binary) > and > http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm(ooxml) > > This is a "must have" for a POI contributor. > > Requests for enhancements and bug reports are submitted via Bugzilla: > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=POI > > Perhaps, a good start would be to review open tickets for the HSLF and > XSLF components and see if you can resolve any of them. > > Regards, > Yegor > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Ali Alsaif <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi there > > > > Thank you guys for your hard work! Several months ago I was in need of a > > java library to help me go through some ppt files and I have to admit > your > > work is amazing. I noticed that most of the developers are focused on > excel > > and spreadsheet files. I would like to contribute as well. > > > > I'm a second year computer science major. I admit I'm very inexperienced > > when it comes to open sourcing and I would like to to change that. > > > > I wasn't able to find a good tutorial or documentation to help me get > > started on your project though. I use eclipse IDE on a mac OS. I've > followed > > the instructions on the how to build page and set up Ant and Forrest. I > also > > have downloaded the source code through the svn repository. Now my mind > went > > blank. I don't know where to go from here. I know I want to work on the > HSLF > > and XSLF components the most and planning on learning about the different > > file formats microsoft uses. But, I'm still don't know how to interact > with > > the source code from a developers view. How do I build? how do I test > code > > that already exists? I have many questions which most of them would be a > > little stupid compared to what goes on this mailing list. :) > > > > I am a beginner in open source programming, building libraries, and > > interacting with office documents. But, I'm very excited to learn from > > this experience and contribute as much as I can to the project. Would > anyone > > hold my hands till I can stand on my feet ? :) > > > > Thank you > > Ali Al Saif > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
