Hi,

Apologies if I missed this... but is there any documentation anywhere about
POI's various library dependencies?

I see the various jar files in the distribution, but it isn't clear to me
whether they're all needed, or whether some only apply to particular
features or subsets of POI. Can I leave out some of the files?

I'm trying to integrate POI into our custom in-house build environment, and
it isn't immediately obvious which jars need to be included OR which
jars/versions need to be omitted because we're already including them to
satisfy a preexisting dependency in either our code, or one of the other
libraries we include. And in some cases our existing libraries are either
older or newer than the ones in POI, so I'm not sure whether to
upgrade/downgrade what we have, or whether or not POI *requires* the
older/newer version.

And, having poked around a bit, I can't find appropriate documentation on
this topic on the POI website. Am I just missing it?

I guess it's also worth pointing out that I personally haven't used POI in
many years (2.5.1 or earlier)... but my boss needs to put some little app
together using POI 3.5, and I'm responsible for maintenance of the build
system... oh, and FYI, we'll be integrating it into our servlet environment
and won't need to build POI from source.

Thanks for any guidance.

Sarah Kelley

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