[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Some other reasons to use POI : > >- we want to generate XLS file on a server (not allways Win$ + Office). Usually >Office is not installed on servers. > That and if you use it, its single threaded as an OLE server. Meaning if you open two sheets at once, then it fights itself.
>- then those files would need to be printed (margin), have graph, logo (image >ion cell), and coordinates would need to be in inches, cm, mm :-) > Once again.....figure out the mathmatical correllation between the units Excel is storing and mm, cm or Inches and I'll do the rest ;-) >- they even can be embeded in a web page in IE browser. > Mozilla rulez! ;-) (Mozilla = Mozilla and any browser embedding mozillas guts, I consider them all the same) >- a previous application was written in Java and doing export in various formats >: XML, HTML, pdf,... and an XLS export is needed. > > This is the use case I had in mind when I started this thing. Done that project a couple times. (Usually started out "cool we'll deliver the data over the web".....accounting "But how do we get it into Excel?") -- BTW this is a good use case for the HSSF Serializer for Cocoon. -Andy > > >----------------------------------------------------- >Bernard Segonnes >http://bsegonnes.free.fr [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
