Nick, Thank you very much for the information.
I will get my senior management to look at sponsoring some of the development on Open XML. Unfortunately I don't have enough clout to promise you sponsorship, but I will try my best :). We have used POI for long and it's a great library. Warm regards, Anusha On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Nick Burch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Anusha Vishwanath, Versata This electronic transmission (and any attached document) is for the sole use of the individual(s) or entity(s) to whom it is addressed. It is Versata Confidential. If you receive this message in error, please notify me and destroy the attached message (and all attached documents) immediately.
