Hi Curtis, My situation is probably different in that I'm running this stuff on an IBM iSeries with the OS400 operating system rather than a Windows or Unix-like OS. However, I'll list what I did and see if that helps; I'm sure others can chime in with more info for your scenario.
1. Go to http://jakarta.apache.org/poi, click on the Download link, select a mirror site, and download the latest release bin -- in my case I chose poi-bin-2.5.1-final-20040804.zip -- they also have other archive file formats available, eg .tar. 2. Unzip the .jar files: poi-2.5.1-final-2004-0804.jar poi-contrib-2.0-RC2-20040102.jar poi-scratchpad-2.0-RC2-20040102.jar from this file and place them in your ../j2skd1.4.2_08/jre/lib/ext (in my case they go in a directory called /QIBM/userdata/Java400/ext). If you put them somewhere else, that directory should be in your classpath. 3. The poi-3.0-alpha1-20050721.jar file from the nightly builds link replaces the poi-2.5.1-final-2004-0804.jar file. Move or delete the latter so it will use the former. 4. Write your Java code that utilizes the classes and methods in these .jar files and run it. I was writing a general purpose utility to read a template .xls file, add data to it from an OS400 file, and write out another .xls file. The problem was that the default column formatting from the template .xls was not being applied to the data I was adding; the patch for issue #35799 which is included in the poi-3.0-alpha1-20050721.jar fixed that. hth, Peter Dow Dow Software Services, Inc. www.dowsoftware.com 909 793-9050 voice 909 793-4480 fax -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.5/58 - Release Date: 7/25/2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
