Ummm, if you're using .NET wouldn't you be able to natively talk (COM,
perhaps) to Office documents, thereby obliviating the need for POI
altogether?! :) (this is said jokingly, but if I'm off base then feel
free to enlighten me).
Erik
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From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jakarta General List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:25 PM
Subject: RE: [VOTE] Switching development to C#
> I've been thinking about it...Perhaps we shouldn't port POI over to C#,
> perhaps we should utilize the full power of .NET and port it to all 7-13
> languages it supports currently! Meaning
>
> POIFS = VB.NET
> HSSF = C#
> HPSF = PERL.NET
> HDF = J#
>
> I mean, thats one degree of separation! Think of all the advantages
> learning all of these different languages (sadly I know them all except
> for C#/J# which you could argue I know via knowing Java).
>
> Gosh! That should help POI out tremendously.
>
> -Andy
>
> On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 20:15, Paulo Gaspar wrote:
> > Do you have anything against Fortran or Cobol?
> >
> > There will be .Net implementations for those, you know? And we could
> > leverage the power of all those "legacy" academic and enterprise
> > programmers.
> >
> > (I bet there are a lot of Cobol guys getting a lot of free time on
> > their hands after the Y2K mess.)
> >
> >
> > Paulo
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:10 PM
> > > To: Jakarta General List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Switching development to C#
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Marc wrote:
> > >
> > > > Having become convinced by Andy that C# and .NET are the wave of the
> > > > future, I'm proposing that we switch poi development to C#.
> > > >
> > > > To the Jakarta community at large: will this affect our status as a
> > > > Jakarta project? I mean, I can see where a lot of projects are
> > > > eventually going to follow this same path ...
> > >
> > > I'm ok with using .NET, but I think you should use BASIC as language,
> > > not C#. .NET is language independent, and other jakarta projects
> > > already switched to BASIC.
> > >
> > > Costin
> > >
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> http://www.superlinksoftware.com
> http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - port of Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound
> Document
> format to java
> http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html
> - fix java generics!
> The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to
> vote.
> -Ambassador Kosh
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