This has had my +1 for a while now, but I'll repeat it anyway...
+1 On 1/17/02 2:45 PM, "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Proposal for "POI" - A Jakarta Subproject > version 1.0 - 17 Jan 2002 > > (0) rationale > > The POI project seeks to provide pure Java APIs for reading, creating > and manipulating files written in formats based on Microsoft OLE 2 > Compound Document Format. The POI project has already successfully > created a Pure Java OLE 2 Compound Document Format library (POIFS) and a > port of the Microsoft Excel '97(-2002) file format (aka XLS, BIFF8) and > tools for serializing XML in these formats (which will be hosted as part > of Cocoon 2). > > The POI project user community is growing leaps and bounds in usage as > evidenced by its position as one of the most active projects on > SourceForge and the 2,290 people who have downloaded it so far this > month. The POI project currently has two active developers. The > development community might be small but is fanatically committed (and > growing rather quickly). It is likely that the upcoming port of the > Microsoft Word 97 File format will increase the size of the development > community, not to mention the user community. The documentation is > comprehensive and includes full documentation on the previously > undocumented (or at least incompletely documented) Microsoft OLE 2 > Compound Document Format. There are also HOW-TO documents that > illustrate use cases and examples. Lastly, The project founders have > agreed to collaborate with a developer at the OpenOffice.org project on > the Excel File Format Documentation. > > Many Jakarta projects could potentially take advantage of POI and its > use in Jakarta will likely further seed the POI developer community. > POI is a unique project in the Java world. Up until now there have been > no successful free attempts to provide read/write access to OLE 2 CDF or > MS Excel (97+) file formats. POI coupled with other Jakarta technologies > could produce some highly useful offspring. A few specific examples > might be Office Document indexing for Lucene, Velocity generating Excel > and Word document presentations, Office document management capabilities > for Slide as well as content delivery and editing in Turbine. > > POI would make it possible to use Jakarta and XML-Apache projects in > many cases where currently a proprietary solution is currently required. > > (1) scope of the subproject > > The subproject shall create and maintain packages written in the Java > language, intended for use in generating and reading files in formats > based on the OLE 2 Compound Document Format. > > (2) identify the initial source from which the subproject is to be > populated > > The initial packages would be based on existing POI codebase currently > located at SourceForge: > > http://poi.sourceforge.net > > (3) identify the Jakarta resources to be created > > (3.1) mailing list(s) > > poi-user > poi-dev > > (3.2) CVS repositories > > jakarta-poi > > (3.3) Bugzilla > > program - poi > components - Web site, POIFS, HSSF, HDF > > (3.4) Jyve FAQ (when available) > > poi-general > poi-poifs > poi-hssf > poi-hdf > > (4) identify the initial set of committers > > Andrew Oliver > Marcus Johnson > > (5) identify apache sponsoring individual > > Stefano Mazzocchi -- Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System and Software Consulting "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
