Andrew C. Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
F***! I _want_ this... Guess my boss will be _more_ than happy when I show
him his news hits stats in Excel or PowerPoints (download and take to the
weekly meeting, straight off the live site)...
I don't care about XML or JAKARTA, I just say that the project is cool (so
freakin' cool), even for a Mac user, I trust Stefano's judgement, and that
Andrew seems like a cool person...
Pier (gone off downloading, leech!)
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