Nice work Matt! I've also passed the link to your blog article on to some buddies of mine who, up to now, have been creating tab delimited files as a means of programmatically creating spreadsheets.
Thanks! Chris On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Kevin Pepperman <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
