You are very much welcome to contribute. > We are ready to contribute the following: > · - Support for more than 256 columns,
Is it for the binary (.xls) format ? For which format. XSSF supports 16K > · - Performances improvements, This kind of improvements is always welcome. > · - .... Support for wildcards in formula parsing / evalution would be a nice contribution. POI's formula module is well designed and it should be possible to add support for wildcards without changing much code. Support for simple wildcards e.g. ”*apples*” is straightforward and should take a few days. You will need to re-visit formula implementations and make sure they understand the wildcard syntax. Support for complex wildcards like ”*”&A1&”*” is harder. It will require changes in the formula parser to support this syntax and then changes in the evaluation code. We may need to re-factor some core classes to suport it. A full-time developer familiar with the POI architecture should be able to complete this task in 7-10 days . The point is that POI is a volunteer project and people contribute in their free time, mostly off hours, by little bits. Regards, Yegor On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Cedric Walter <[email protected]> wrote: > Innoveo is using Apache POI since 2007, and this library is strategic for us > in order to support the Excel support in our product Skyetm > (http://www.innoveo.com/SoftwareSolution.aspx), we want now to contribute bug > fixes and feature enhancements we have already made and will have to make in > the future back to Apache POI. > > We are ready to contribute the following: > · - Support for more than 256 columns, > · - Performances improvements, > · - .... > > We need now that Apache POI support "wildcards values" for vlookup, hlookup, > lookup, match, countif and sumif in the NEXT 2 to 4 WEEKS. > > Innoveo is committed to develop this functionality but we would still > appreciate some guidance, so the chance the patch get accepted being higher. > A lot of questions are popping up: > - Can it be done? > - Estimates if it would be done by an internal developer, best efforts? > - Difficulty, is the internal API able to tackle this requirement without > requiring us to changes most of code? > - Would some internal developers being interested by a bounty to develop this > functionality? > > Apache POI Roadmap as far as we did understand is driven by the bugtracker, > is there any plan to support "wildcards values" or has it be already done? > > INSIGHT INNOVEO / > > A growing software company focused on the insurance industry, based in > Zurich, Switzerland and privately held by its founding members. We base > ourselves on long experience in the insurance industry, technology and > architecture (SOA). > Our international, very experienced team, is acting throughout Europe and > beyond. We deliver an industry-specific IT platform and related services; we > are focused on the Western European insurance market. Innoveo is dedicated to > enabling the insurance business through technology. Starting in 2000, we have > rapidly built an industry-reference platform that handles € billions in offer > volume today and serves as the basis for a wide variety of business > applications. > see http://www.innoveo.com/AboutUs.aspx"; --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
