Cool Avik! Nice job. This is a nice piece of work and really puts things into perspective.
-Andy <snip/> >POI >=== >Editor: Avik Sengupta > >The POI team made two releases in June. A production release of version >1.5.1 on June 17, and a dev milestone release 1.7.0 on June 24. The dev >release was notable for the inclusion of a large body of formula support. >This was preceeded by some expected wrestling with the undocumented parts of >the excel file format [2]. > >The dev list was animated for a while on the issue of whether poi should >have a calculation engine built in. Andy summarised the discussion [3]. > >To better understand how POI and its components are being used in practice, >a call for case studies was made [4]. These have been put up on the project >site [5]. > >There have been many requests for a java viewer for excel files. Andy hacked >up "Sucky Viewer" as a GUI component built on POI/HSSF [6]. > >Logging has been the cause of a large number of problem reports. It was >therefore decided that POI would have logging disabled by default, and thus >no extra libraries would be required to run POI [7]. However, developers wou >ld have the option of enabling logging at runtime using either commons >logging or log4j. This decision was further validated when there were >reports of significant performance hit with logging enabled [8]. As a >result, the 1.5.1 and 1.7-dev versions have logging disabled. > >The POI team is working towards a 2.0 release that adds the functionality >for formula, charting and Word documents. There are many feature requests >that have been asked for, but these are the top priority at the moment [9]. > >[1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/hssf/formula.html >[2] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=poi-dev&m=102382900822300&w=2 >[3] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=poi-dev&m=102468743701331&w=2 >[4] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=poi-dev&m=102371435712172&w=2 >[5] - http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/casestudies.html >[6] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=poi-user&m=102476270711166&w=2 >[7] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=102333893500001&r=1&w=2 >[8] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=poi-user&m=102518419020006&w=2 >[9] - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=poi-dev&m=102500927422333&w=2 > > > > <snip/> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
