ANNOUNCEMENT:
The POI Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Jakarta POI 2.5-FINAL release.
WHAT IS POI?
The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. Support for reading and writing Microsoft Excel files and property information is mature and work continues on reading and writing the MS Word format.
You can find the website at http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
NEW LICENSE:
This release is has upgraded it's license to version 2.0 of the Apache Software Foundation License. See http://www.apache.org/licenses/ for more details.
CHANGE LOG:
The following major changes have occurred since the 2.0 release:
HSSF (for reading and writing spreadsheets):
* Support for the Escher format in spreadsheets. In other words you can now create shapes inside sheets.
* BUG: 27005 java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException during Workbook.cloneSheet()
DOWNLOADS (source and binaries):
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/jakarta/poi/
Regards,
The Jakarta POI Team.
