I posted a little while back on developing C++ port of POI, so that KOffice could use POI to develop filters for Excel and Word. It now appears that developing a C++ port isn't necessary anymore, because it turns out that we can invoke the Java code from C++ using GCJ [1].
There is some discussion on the KOffice mailing list about how they are going to implement filters. Currently there are two proposals, the first is to use the OpenOffice file format and re-use the OpenOffice filters for MS Word, and the second is to use the Apache POI library compiled under GCJ. The advantage of using the existing OpenOffice filters is that they are already developed for Word as well as Excel. However, Apache POI seems more suitable in the long term, since the quality of the code seems to be much higher than the OpenOffice filter code. Does anybody have any thoughts on this? Thanks, -TJ [http://maxmind.com] [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcj/Invocation.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
