Martin,
3) If the software is not independent of Office 2007, is it
compatible
with it? If not, what is the compatible version and what are the
costs
involved in upgrading?
MG>the way TC handles Microsoft Compound Documents such as XLS and
DOC files are thru POI Apache interface
MG>http://www.apachenews.org/archives/001180.html
MG>This common POI interface allows access to HSSF (binary file
format, .xls) and XSSF (ooxml file format, .xlsx)
MG>i think its safe to assume POI access to legacy .doc Documents
and .xls Spreadsheets is assumed
MG>in other words read access to POI docs is almost assured..write
capability is another matter
There is NOT as much support as you say - please read the note more
carefully. The Apache POI project is working on OOXML and this support
is limited and in Beta form - POI 3.5 Beta 3 was released just this
Sunday. (Announcement attached below.)
Support for .doc files is nowhere near as robust as .xls,
If you have questions about POI you can send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards,
Dave
From the Apache POI Team:
The POI team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache POI
3.5 beta 3, our latest beta including OOXML (Office Open XML) support.
Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading
and
writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and
Word. With POI 3.5, it also support the new OOXML formats introduced
in Office 2007. See http://poi.apache.org/ for more details
Release Highlights:
POI-SS - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel Format Files
* This common interface allows access to HSSF (binary file format,
.xls) and XSSF (ooxml file format, .xlsx) in the same way
* Very similar to HSSF usermodel, allowing easy translation of old
code support to the new format
* All of HSSF should support this interface
* Partial implementation of XSSF for this interface
POI-XSSF - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel 2007 OOXML Format Files
* partial implementation of high level interface
* text extraction supported
* low level, low memory parsing supported
POI-XSLF - Java API To Access Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 OOXML
Format Files
* text extraction supported
POI-XWPF - Java API To Access Microsoft Word 2007 OOXML File Formats
* text extraction supported
In addition, all fixes from the forthcoming 3.2 release (svn trunk)
are included. This includes a large number of formula fixes and
improvements, and initial Publisher file format support. For full
changelog details, and documentation, please see /docs/ in the
distribution. The documentation on the website reflects the state of
work on POI 3.2.
The source and binaries can be downloaded from your local mirror:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/dev/
The release is also available from the central Maven repository under
Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.5-beta3". Note that the
ooxml support is not available via Maven, as the dependencies are
not packaged.
For the Apache POI Team
Nick Burch
