Here we go again, > -----Original Message----- > From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 4:45 AM > > > Playing Devil's advocate. I think it's fair to push back on adding things > to Jakarta... > > On 1/5/02 9:53 PM, "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please read these posts and then tell me where you're not clear? > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg02681.html > > Isn't it fair to guess that the majority of your server side use would be > reading documents for presentation, indexing, searching?
WHY for presentation? Most of the time you would batch convert Word and Excel docs to HTML if needed, and there are specialized tools for that. > However, you point out in the above link that the thing that makes POI > special is it's ability to *write*? What's the % of mainly writing to > mainly reading on the serverside? As mentioned in my previous posting, it is JUST like Velocity writing HTML. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg02685.html > > Paulo might use VB to make a client side app, but I wouldn't if I wanted > portability, especially if I was looking to the handheld or embedded > application that could access a document remotely... Are there many uses for writing Word/Excel documents in a client-side device that has not Word or Excel installed??? And AFAIK, if you have Word and Excel, you have at least some Basic scripting... but maybe you do not have Java. > ... Have fun, Paulo Gaspar -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
