Here's my thoughts (nobody asked for them, but I give them anyway) ... I read this article also. And I wonder how it will affect the internal structure of Word and Excel. In particular, will this feature break such APIs as POI?
For those who haven't read the article, Windows 2003 has a new service called 'Windows Rights Management Service'. It will be integrated into Office 2003, through a set of tools called IRM (Information Rights Management). It will allow the author of a document to specify which users or user groups are allowed to read, write, print, etc. The implication is that if a document is protected in this fashion, it is possible that POI would not be able to read or process the document. With respect to this, I have to agree with Glen below - most users will not use the feature. The use of the feature requires that all workstations and servers be upgraded to Windows 2003 (and Office 2003). And even if users do need the feature, they will probably not use it for files which must be processed by POI. An opportunity also exists - if POI could be used to create an .xls or .doc which would be protected by Information Rights Management. There is a Java API which understands Windows Authentication at http://jcifs.samba.org which may help. But we need to see the implementation before we can begin to understand how it works. -----Original Message----- From: Glen Stampoultzis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:28 PM To: POI Developers List Subject: Re: This should be fun I doubt it's going to be the killer feature that Microsoft is hoping for. It's not enabled by default so I suspect most people won't bother to use it. -- Glen At 12:15 PM 3/09/2003, you wrote: >http://rss.com.com/2100-1012_3-5069246.html >-- >Andrew C. Oliver >http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp >Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI > >http://jakarta.apache.org/poi >For Java and Excel, Got POI? > >The views expressed in this email are those of the author and are almost >definitely not shared by the Apache Software Foundation, its board or its >general membership. In fact they probably most definitively disagree with >everything espoused in the above email. > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glen Stampoultzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.iinet.net.au/~gstamp/glen/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
