thks, I wish to work with XLS (office 2003) format so I believe the classpath only will needs the poi-3.6-20091214.jar. I will try this and come back.
thks to all. On 22 March 2010 19:00, MSB <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am not too sure exactly what you are asking here as the word import is > used > to make a class avaailable to the code you are writing so I am going to > assume that you are asking which archives should be added to the classpath. > The answer depends on which file format are you working with, the older > binary format (.xls) or the newer xml based one (.xlsx)? The file format > affects - to some extent - the archives you will need to reference on your > claspath in order to compile and execute the code. > > If you are working with the older binary file format, you should need to > add > just one archive onto your classpath, it will have a name something like > this - poi-3.6-20091214.jar. > > On the other hand, if you are working with the newer file format - the xml > based one - then you will need to add other files onto your classpath to > support this. Looking at my IDE, I have to reference the following > archives; > > poi-3.6-beta1-20091007.jar > poi-oxml-3.6-beta1-20091007.jar > openxml4j-1.0-beta.jar > xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar > ooxml-schemas-1.0.jar > dom4j-1.6.1.jar > > You will need to look through the contents of the unzipped archives folders > to locate the files you have downloaded with names most closely matching > the > examples I have given and add those onto your classpath. > > Yours > > Mark B > > > Quique Britto wrote: > > > > Sorry if this should be common sense but I have extracted the poi zip ( > > poi-bin-3.6-20091214.zip< > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/bin/poi-bin-3.6-20091214.zip > >) > > to my c:\poi-3.6\ directory. > > I want to be able to read and write XLS files from within my program(s), > > what do I need to import in my app.: > > > > import poi? > > > > any help will be highly appreciated. > > ebm1991 > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Instalation-Query---Newbie-tp27988855p27990229.html > Sent from the POI - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
