On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Anusha Vishwanath wrote:
Please let me know when a beta release of POI with support for Open XML
will be available (or if it's already available).
You can get nightlies from
http://encore.torchbox.com/poi-svn-build/OOXML-Branch/
The main beta release is currently on hold. We have identified a few areas
of the specification which aren't as clear as they might be, and we're
awaiting confirmation from Microsoft that they really won't sue us or our
users. We will hopefully be getting that soon (they're overdue getting
back to us).
The beta vote is likely to start about a day after we get the assurance :)
One thing to be aware of is that there hasn't been much progress on the
ooxml codebase recently. SourceSense were funded to do some work on the
ooxml support, but I believe that funding has now run out. No other
organisations have come forward willing to sponsor any more work.
So, if you value the ooxml support, please consider getting your company
to sponsor some of the development. That could be assigning a developer to
work on the code, or funding one of the existing poi developers to work on
it. Do please get in touch if you think your company could be in a
position to do either of these
Nick
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