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May 18, 2007

18 May 2007 - Apache Jakarta POI 3.0 Released

The Apache Jakarta POI Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Apache Jakarta POI 3.0. This long-awaited release has been a long time coming, and we are thankful to all those who have helped us.

Apache Jakarta POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

Besides a number of bug fixes, this release offers a range of new features including:

  • Partial support for PowerPoint through hslf, which offers support for reading and editing many of the core fields
  • Support for evaluating Excel formulas in hssf
  • Support for editing document properties through hpsf
  • Improved support for editing images through hssf

A changelog is available at:

http://poi.apache.org/changes.html

Apache Jakarta POI 3.0 is downloadable from the jakarta website:

http://poi.apache.org/

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-- The Apache Jakarta POI Team

---- Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata at May 18, 2007 09:55 PM
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