As a matter of fact I believe the POI project once had an explanation in relation to the Polynesian dish of the same name
from Wikipedia "Poi is a Hawaiian word for the primary Polynesian staple food made from the corm of the taro plant (known in Hawaiian as kalo). Poi is produced by mashing the cooked corm (baked or steamed) until it is a highly viscous fluid. Water is added during mashing and again just before eating, to achieve a desired consistency, which can range from liquid to dough-like (poi can be known as two-finger or three-finger, alluding to how many fingers you would have to use to eat it, depending on its consistency)." Quoting from memory "Poi is an amalgamation of roots and water, mashed together and left to ferment (or rot). The same process seems to have been applied to the file formats as well." On Mar 17, 2:47 am, 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.
