1. No - other than the usual migration issues. The situation you describe is what HSSF meant to be used in. 2. Yes - all those who use HSSF have worked with some such implementation. We had an system where a large number users (customers from 30+ companies) were used to sharing data through Excel files through email. Almost each one of these customers had his own systems, built using MS technologies which directly used these files. This whole system had to be given an interface on a J2EE based B2B portal. Here, scrapping the existing systems & forcing everybody to use a single web interface would not have been accepted -- at least not in a short duration. In this scenario, POI HSSF was just the thing we needed.
But practically, if the user base is small, training them to use web interface should be a lot easier than implementing the whole thing using POI. -----Original Message----- From: Madhusudan Mathihalli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 11:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Silly question regarding POI-HSSF Hi, I just started reading about the POI-HSSF, and I've to admit that it's really a cool project. I had a pretty silly question regarding using POI-HSSF - please bear with me and if you've already answered such questions. Today, some of my collegues are share data via an Excel Spreadsheet. I'm trying to change this behaviour to saving the data in a database - however, since they're not used to filling data on a HTML page, there's been some problems in getting them to use the web interface. With POI, I think I can give them a Excel-style interface, excel-style editing capability and on the backend, parse the xls and save the data on the database. Question: - Do you see any problems in this ? - Do you already know of a similar implementation (if so, can you please give me some pointers) Thanks -Madhu --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
