IMO Andrew puts the finger on why POI is only used on a server. One of my 2 interests (the other is indexing) on POI is exactly the typical one he describes: - I want to be able build Word and Excel documents on a Web Server without going back to use MS IIS and COM automation.
(... even because using COM to control Word/Excel in a multithreaded application sounds VERY problematic and all the other methods I can think of are some other kind of PITA.) Hey, for a client application, I would use Delphi or VB + COM in Windows and something around OpenOffice in Linux. Hey! I am just finding out how much server side POI really is!!! Have fun, Paulo Gaspar > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 3:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Request For Comment] POI @ apache > > > Hi Pete, > > > >> Me to. POI doesn't seem to have anything to do with XML and FOP is > >> essentially a renderer for a XML dialect right ? > > > POI are codecs for reading different office formats in java. Sounds > much more > > correction: reading and writing (I don't bother with simple "readers", > there are a hundred of those out there). (not to be pedantic just to > distinguish the purpose) > > >suited to jakarta than xml ... but even then it does seem to be out of > scope > >- what the hell has it got to do with serverside technologies ? But > then > >again I have no problem with this ;) > > Well POI is pretty much strictly used on serverside projects. I've yet > to hear from a user who is currently using this in a clientside > application. > > A typical scenario for POI's HSSF (the Excel API), for instance, would > be for instance that you have a web application that provides a > financial report in HTML. Well the accounting department insists on > having it in Excel format. You have a few good and bad solutions, but > POI's HSSF API (codec if you prefer) will allow you to serve the XLS > file from your Unix server running Tomcat for instance. You could of > course have the opposite scenario (the accounting department uploading > the XLS) and HSSF can help with that too. Either way POI has NO GUI. > It could be used of course in a client app if you wanted, but Tomcat is > being used by Netbeans for something or the other so go figure on what > is strictly serverside so to speak. > > Hope that clears things up (and I hope it doesn't make you doubt that > Tomcat is a serverside component ;-p). > > -Andy > > > >-- > >Cheers, > > >Pete > > > > -- > www.superlinksoftware.com > www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi - port of Excel format to java > http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html > - fix java generics! > > > The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to > vote. > -Ambassador Kosh > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
