From: "T.J. Mather" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Would there be any interest in having a C++ library developed in parallel > with the Java POI libraries, including POIFS, HSSF, HDF? The idea would > be similar to how Xerces C++ and Java work, sharing a similar API and > code structure. > > This way we would use POI in the various open-source office suites, > including KOffice, and we could write wrappers to POI in Perl and other > scripting languages. > > Dealing with MS Office file formats is hard, so I think it makes a lot > of sense to combine all efforts across all languages into one project. > It seems a lot easier to translate Java code to C++ than it is to grok the > MS Office formats, and it would help the Java project too, because bugs > found with the MS format could be applied to both C++ and Java packages.
:-) What you propose is nice, although we would need to see where to position the codebase, since Jakarta is for "solutions for the Java Platform" (http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mission.html). <TOL> What about exposing the POI API to C++ while keeping the codebase in Java? </TOL> -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) ---------------------------------------------------------------------
