I, and several associates have been in several situations where we attempted to get company's that continue pushing legacy software to support new things. It is surprising how hard it is to get them to do things.
One unnamed company told us they could make it export a newer excel format, but it would cost us 'about' 10 grand. I have learned to live, and work around that kind of backwards thinking, especially because the majority of my business is building automated middle ware to get data from existing legacy applications to the web and back. Another thing I would suggest for this POI project is integrated support for the javaloader.cfc http://www.transfer-orm.com/?action=javaloader.index It works on BD and allows loading the poi lib without having the jars in the classpath. OpenBd has completely changed the way I do these things and has made it affordable for small manufacturers to have access to CFML apps. My thanks to you, and everyone at New Atlanta for all the work that has gone into this project. On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Matthew Woodward <[email protected]>wrote: > Kevin Pepperman wrote: > >> Unfortunately the POI lib will not read excel 95. >> > > Thanks Kevin--good to know about Excel 95. Once I get further on this it > will support XLS, XLSX, and OpenOffice.org formats, and maybe we'll all live > long enough to see Excel '95 go away. :-) > > -- > Matthew Woodward > [email protected] > http://www.mattwoodward.com/blog > > Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, > etc. as attachments. > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > -- -- if you've written a homegrown[*CFML] controller layer that rivals the sophistication and ease of use of the three major players (MG/MII/FB) - then share it or shut up. You code in a silo - that's great. Just stay in there and don't try to tell everyone how good it smells. --Dave Ross --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official site @ http://www.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
