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18 July 2008 - Apache POI 3.5.1 beta Now Available

The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache POI 3.5.1 beta 1, our first release 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

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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 POI 3.1 FINAL, and from just after, are included. For full changelog details, and documentation, please see /docs/ in the distribution. The documentation on the website reflects the state of work on POI 3.1.1.

  
  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 "3.5.1-beta1". Note that the ooxml support is not available via Maven, as the dependencies are not packaged.

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  -- The Apache POI Team

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  Project 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

  Posted by Tetsuya Kitahata at July 18, 2008 08:23 PM
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