Andrew, Is there a list somewhere of who is working on what?
And for the record. I / our company has never received any info under an NDA relating to this file format. Chris > That would be exactly the best thing to do. Post a patch or two to > bugzilla, secondly make the source available. But before we could > incorporate it you'd have to certify that you/the developers never > received any information regarding the file format under a > Non-disclosure agreement. > > Thanks for understanding, we get a lot of these lately, most don't pan > out. > > On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 19:17, Chris Tregenza wrote: > > Fair comment. What would be a good demonstration of feasibility? I'm > > perfectly willing to extract say the formula stuff or any other area > > not yet > > implemented in HSSF and put it in a more usable form. > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 23:34 > > To: POI Development > > Subject: Re: Fw: Hopefully useful code donation > > > > > > Its up to any contributer or committer who wants to look at it. I've > > gotten my fill of "Come look at my code and figure out what it does > > and > > see if it has anything useful" -- So far I've failed usually to figure > > out what their code did and often WHERE it is. I'm more interested in > > code donations that come along with smart people than I am code for us > > to maintain. Thats just my opinion. Not that I don't appreciate the > > sentiment, its just a lot of work for us to do with no proof of > > feasibility. In this case proof of infeasibility (unavailability of > > the > > author). > > > > On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 10:09, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Chris Tregenza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:16 PM > > > Subject: Hopefully useful code donation > > > > > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > I've have written an Excel file reader in Java as part of > > > > developing a > > > > product for the company I work for. This was started a couple of > > > > years > > ago > > > > before the HSSF project existed otherwise I would of saved myself > > > > an > > awful > > > > lot of work. After some discussion I have persuaded the company > > > > (who > > > > wishes to remain nameless due to the market we operate in) to > > > > release > > this > > > > code to the HSSF. > > > > > > > > What the code does is read Excel 97 files and makes the data > > > > available > > via > > > > a variety of classes. As this has been done to fulfil our needs > > > > it only > > > > handles data types that are important to our product. Critically > > > > (I > > > > believe) to the HSSF is that we fully support formulas* and named > > ranges. > > > > > > > > I don't imagine that my code (which is pretty rough** in places) > > > > can be > > > > dropped into the HSSF but I hope that it useful as either a) > > > > something > > > > that be quickly cannibalised and used in HSSF until something > > > > better > > gets > > > > written or b) as a reference implementation to help with some of > > > > the > > > > undocumented nasties floating around in the Excel. > > > > > > > > Clearly it isn't suitable for submitting to the POI CVS so I > > > > propose to > > > > put the code up on a web site so that others on this list can use > > > > it as > > > > required. > > > > > > > > Our companies plan is not to developed our code any further and > > > > when > > HSSF > > > > has all the functionality we need, we will replace our code with > > > > HSSF. > > > > Because of deadlines etc I'm not going to be able work on the > > > > HSSF code > > > > for a while but hopefully I will have useful advice to offer in > > > > the > > > > meantime. > > > > > > > > Chris Tregenza > > > > > > > > > > > > *By this I mean it reads the Excel ptgs and produces a human > > > > readable > > > > string identical to that displayed in Excel. It doesn't do any > > > > sort of > > > > calculations. > > > > > > > > ** This is an understatement. When I started writing this code I > > > > had > > only > > > > a few months experience of Java and no idea about the Excel file > > > > format. > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > > -- > 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 > >
