-----Original Message----- POI is an Apache open-source project to manipulate Excel sheets from Microsoft ;-) -----/Original Message-----
not exactly... POI stands for Poor Obfuscation Implementation and is what the developers think of MShits attempt to hide the content of their office programs in a one-file FAT-filesystem like structure. The POI projects wants to deliver api's for all office-formats. The actual Excel-api is called: HSSF (Horrible SpreadSheet Format) names tell a story every now and then ;-) Alexander