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:
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-- The Apache Jakarta POI Team
----Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata at May 18, 2007 09:55 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/000984.html
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