Nick, Great tips - thanks for insight. The xml files are the largest, so I'm very interested in how to trim them. I opened them up, but I can't tell by looking what folders are for word, powerpoint, xwpf, and xslf.
- Jeff On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Nick Burch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2011, Jeff G wrote: > >> I'm using POI strictly for *reading Excel xls & xlsx *documents. I'm >> using this as part of a Java Web Start app with somewhat low bandwidth. POI >> is by far my biggest size hog. Is there any way I can reduce the size of >> this? Are all these libraries needed? This is what I have... >> >> dom4j, poi, poi-contrib, poi-ooxml, poi-ooxml-schemas, poi-scratchpad, >> xmlbeans >> > > If you're just doing excel files, you can ditch poi-scratchpad and > poi-contrib. If you're happy to just work with .xls (not .xlsx), then you > can cut it back to only the main poi jar. If you need to work with .xlsx > files, then you need the xml related jars, the poi-ooxml jar, and the cut > down schemas (poi-ooxml-schemas). You might be able to shrink the > ooxml-schemas file by excluding the word and powerpoint related bits, ditto > cutting out the xwpf and xslf parts of poi-ooxml, not sure how much that'd > save. > > Nick > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
