<property name="dist.dir" location="build/dist"/>
<property name="mavendist.dir" location="build/maven-dist"/>
<property name="jar.name" value="poi"/>
- <property name="version.id" value="3.0-alpha3"/>
+ <property name="version.id" value="3.0.1-alpha1"/>
<property name="halt.on.test.failure" value="true"/>
<property name="jdk.version.source" value="1.3"
description="JDK version of source code"/>
<!DOCTYPE changes PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Changes V1.1//EN" "./dtd/changes-v11.dtd">
<changes>
-
- <title>History of Changes</title>
+ <title>History of Changes</title> <!-- this breaks dtd validation -->
<devs>
<!-- in strict alphabetical order -->
<person id="RK" name="Rainer Klute" email="klute@apache.org"/>
<person id="YK" name="Yegor Kozlov" email="yegor@apache.org"/>
</devs>
- <release version="3.0-FINAL" date="99 May 2007">
+
+ <release version="3.0-FINAL" date="18 May 2007">
<action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">39977 - [PATCH] Fix POM for Maven users</action>
<action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">38976 - [PATCH] Add createPicture to HSSFShapeGroup</action>
<action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Detect Office 2007 XML documents, and throw a meaningful exception</action>
</header>
<body>
-<!-- <section><title>POI News</title>-->
-<!-- <p>All POI news can now be found at the <link href="http://nagoya.apache.org/poi/news/">poi news weblog</link>.</p>-->
+ <section><title>POI 3.0 Release</title>
+ <p>After quite a wait, version 3.0 of Apache Jakarta POI has now been
+ released. You can
+ <link href="./changes.html">view the changelog</link>, and
+ <link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/jakarta/poi/release/">download</link>
+ the source and binaries from your
+ <link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/jakarta/poi/release/">local mirror</link>.</p>
+ </section>
-<!-- </section>-->
<section><title>Purpose</title>
<p>
The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats
definition. Please see <link href="./poifs/index.html">the POIFS project page</link> for more information.</p>
</section>
<section><title>HSSF for Excel Documents</title>
- <p>HSSF is our port of the Microsoft Excel 97(-2002) file format (BIFF8) to pure Java. It supports read and write
+ <p>HSSF is our port of the Microsoft Excel 97(-2003) file format (BIFF8) to pure Java. It supports read and write
capability. Please see <link href="./hssf/index.html">the HSSF project page</link> for more information.</p>
</section>
<section><title>HWPF for Word Documents</title>
<p>HWPF is our port of the Microsoft Word 97 file format to pure
- Java. It supports read and write capability. Please see <link
+ Java. It supports read, and limited write capabilities. Please see <link
href="./hwpf/index.html">the HWPF project page for more
information</link>. This component is in the early stages of
development. It can already read and write simple files.</p>
<p>Presently we are looking for a contributor to foster the HWPF
development. Jump in!</p>
</section>
+ <section><title>HSLF for PowerPoint Documents</title>
+ <p>HWSL is our port of the Microsoft PowerPoint 97(-2003) file format to pure
+ Java. It supports read and write capabilities of some, but not yet all
+ of the core records. Please see <link
+ href="./hslf/index.html">the HSLF project page for more
+ information</link>.</p>
+ </section>
<section><title>HPSF for Document Properties</title>
<p>HPSF is our port of the OLE 2 property set format to pure
Java. Property sets are mostly use to store a document's properties