It'd be awesome if you'd write a case study! :-) http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/casestudies.html
Can you tell us all what you did for the EBDIC fix? I'd like to get that in the next development release. That is to big of a bug to go unaddressed. (I sure as heck don't want to see 2.0 go out the door still having that problem) -Andy On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 14:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > POI's best feature is that it actually works. > > Several months ago when I was charged with the unlikely task of getting a > 390 series mainframe to produce Excel Spreadsheets I downloaded an > evaluation copy of ExtenTech's product and tried to get a prototype > running. The developers at ExtenTech were diligent at helping me fix my > inital problems until I got something rudimentary working with the > templates I needed to use. Satisfied by the incredible service they gave > to someone who was only evaluating their product, I bought a license > (imagine what a paid user gets!) > > Once I bought a full license, the mean time to fix the ExtenXLS problems I > had with my particular templates increased dramatically. I barely heard > from the people who were previously so quick to fix the bugs I reported. > I was in danger of dropping my deadlines, so in desparation I tried POI > again and my problems dissapeared. The only problem that didn't go away > (EBCDIC conversion) we were able to fix ourselves with some help from > Andrew. > > I have since received a patched version (too late) from ExtenXLS which I > could care less about as my 390/XLS solution is now powered by POI. > > -Jeff > > > > http://www.extentech.com/products/ExtenXLS/docs/product_features.jsp > > > > Hey, Andy, any comment? I think you have a pretty easy-to-use API. :-) > > Their examples don't look that different, either. > > > > > > -- > > 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]> > -- http://www.superlinksoftware.com - software solutions for business http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document in Java http://krysalis.sourceforge.net/centipede - the best build/project structure a guy/gal could have! - Make Ant simple on complex Projects! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
