Apache POI is an open source project. None of the developers who contribute to 
POI do so full time. There is no Oracle/Sun (OpenOffice) or Microsoft (Office) 
contributing resources to the project at this time.

Rather than reading an old quote from a five year old forum entry that is not 
from this list, I suggest you look at the current version of that page:

http://poi.apache.org/hwpf/index.html

HWPF is actually a case where Microsoft hired Ryan Ackerly. In the process they 
require non-disclosure agreements. Also at this time the documentation was 
closed and everything in POI was discovered through hacking.

Documentation is available from Microsoft.

> http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=670895
> 
> This URL quotes that "soon you'll be able to read and write word documents"
> 
> purely from java code.
> 
> Is this happening?
> 
> Is there a version out now,

It works for some, but there are holes.

> that enhances the Range class or like
> for automatic insertion of jpg/gif/bmp Picture class insertion
> properly, for the use, simply by using a method
> and avoiding the problem of Picture headers within
> an HWPFDocument object?
> 
> If not, about when will this be happening?

It will happen when code is contributed which solves the problem.



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