POI == Poor Obfuscation Implementation IIRC? I think Andy Oliver started the project and came up with the name after pouring over what little publicly published specs of document formats there were.
On Mar 17, 12:47 pm, mP <[email protected]> wrote: > I have used Apache POI in the past but never noticed the meanings of each of > the packages hanging of org.apache.poi.*. Its quite humerous that an apache > product has this sort of thing embedded within the acronyms and javadoc > itself. Are there any other similar public statements for other popular > libraries ? > > http://poi.apache.org/apidocs/index.html > > *DDF - Dreadful Drawing Format* > *org.apache.poi.ddf<http://poi.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/poi/ddf/package-summary.html> > * This package contains classes for decoding the Microsoft Office Drawing > format otherwise known as escher henceforth known in POI as the Dreadful > Drawing Format. > > *HPSF - Horrible Property Set Format* > *org.apache.poi.hpsf<http://poi.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/poi/hpsf/package-summary.html> > * > *org.apache.poi.hpsf.extractor<http://poi.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/poi/hpsf/extractor/package-s...> > * > *org.apache.poi.hpsf.wellknown<http://poi.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/poi/hpsf/wellknown/package-s...> > * > Specific support for DocumentSummaryInformation, SummaryInformation types. > > *HSSF - Horrible Spreadsheet Format* > *org.apache.poi.hssf<http://poi.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/poi/hssf/package-summary.html> > * Horribl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
