This kinda begs the question "is POI modular enough". I've seen a number of
questions arising from people not having the right set of dependent
libraries. But having a lighter weight set of libraries would also be
useful. Perhaps as the original poster suggested, having a separate library
for each type of document would make things easier.

Since I don't tend to build POI I was wondering if it would be difficult to
modify the build to produce separate jars and to perhaps zip up the
dependencies that people keep neglecting to download?

Mark

On May 26, 2011 7:24 PM, "Dave Fisher" <[email protected]> wrote:

The poi-ooxml-schemas jar is built from the unit test coverage, you reduce
that by giving up unit tests. You can delete them from the directory tree.

You'll need a source distro and then you'll need to delete the parts of the
directory tree you don't need. It should be clear what is what, you'll focus
on keeping XSSF, HSSF, SS, POIFS, OOXML bases classes...

You'll then need to do your own build with ant.

http://poi.apache.org/howtobuild.html

Regards,
Dave


On May 26, 2011, at 4:58 PM, Jeff G wrote:

> Nick, Great tips - thanks for insight. The xml files...

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