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July 01, 2008

01 July 2008 - Apache POI 3.1-Final Releaesd

The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache POI 3.1-FINAL.

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. See http://poi.apache.org

Release Highlights:

POI-HSSF - Java API To Access Microsoft Excel Format Files
* Major improvements in formula evaluation
* Support for conditional formatting
* Support for Excel hyperlinks
* Handling of embedded OLE2 documents
* Support for getting excel cell comments when extracting text
* Support for specifying a policy to HSSF on missing / blank cells when fetching

POI-HSLF - Java API To Access Microsoft PowerPoint Format Files
* Support for getting embedded sounds
* Support for getting embedded OLE objects
* Support for Tables
* Improved text extraction
* Export PowerPoint slides into image
* Java2D Graphics driver

POI-HWPF - Java API To Access Microsoft Word Format Files
* Handling of embedded OLE2 documents
* Support for extracting Escher images from HWPF files
* Improved Range.replaceText()

About 100 other fixes and improvements. A full list of changes is available in the change log:
http://poi.apache.org/changes.html

The source and binaries can be downloaded from your local mirror:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/

The release is also available from the central Maven repository under
Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.1-FINAL".

Apache POI Team

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Project Info -- Apache POI

DOAP File

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 Websitehttp://poi.apache.org/
Programming LanguagesJava
Categorieslibrary
Mailing Listshttp://poi.apache.org/mailinglists.html
Bug/Issue Trackerhttp://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=POI
Project Management CommitteeApache POI

Access to the source code:

Browsehttp://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/
SVN Directhttp://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi
Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata at July 1, 2008 01:31 AM
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