January 30, 2004
30 January 2004 - Jakarta POI 2.0 FINAL released
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The POI Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Jakarta POI 2.0-FINAL release.
WHAT IS POI?
The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. Support for reading and writing Microsoft Excel files and property information is mature and work continues on reading and writing the MS Word format.
You can find the website at http://poi.apache.org/
CHANGE LOG:
The following major changes have occurred since the 1.5 release:
HSSF (for reading and writing spreadsheets):
- Numerous bug fixes
- Improved support for non-english spreadsheets.
- Formula support
- Named cells and ranges
- Sheet reordering
- Zoom support
- Freeze and split panes supported
- Row and column headers
- Custom data formats
- Support for cloning objects
- Headers and footers
- Preservation of VBA macros when rewriting workbooks
- Support for hyperlinks by using cell formulas: cell.setCellFormula("HYPERLINK(\"http://google.com\",\"Google\")");
- Custom palettes
HPSF (for reading document properties):
- Bug fixes
- Codepage support
- Read and write support
- Custom properties
DOWNLOADS (source and binaries):
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/jakarta/poi/
Regards,
The Jakarta POI Team.
----Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata at January 30, 2004 11:07 PMProject Info -- Apache POI
APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. POI is your Java Excel solution as well as your Java Word solution. However, we have a complete API for porting other OLE 2 Compound Document formats and welcome others to participate.
Releases can be downloaded from http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/
Project Website http://poi.apache.org/ Programming Languages Java Categories library Mailing Lists http://poi.apache.org/mailinglists.html Bug/Issue Tracker http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=POI Project Management Committee Apache POI Access to the source code:
Browse http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/ SVN Direct http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi
http://www.apachenews.org/archives/000021.html
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